Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Oct 31 04:12:47 UTC 2001


John Cowan writes:
 > Sure.  But the patent license is restrictive, so you shouldn't certify.

No, *not* having the patent license is restrictive.  It's really weird 
that a license whose controversial terms grant people more freedoms
would be clearly approvable if those terms were taken out.

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