STWL: please comment

[Bernhard Fastenrath]

Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Bernhard Fastenrath said on Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:02:00PM +0100,:
> 
>  >     5. If you are owner of software patents
> 
> Hmm....
> 
>  > you agree to refrain from any legal action based on infringement of
>  > your intellectual property claims
> 
> Suppose the claim is that the copyleft requirement for one of my works
> which is under an OSI  approved license is being violated, (which will
> most  probably,  be that  source  to  the  modifications made  by  the
> violator  is not  being released)???  Do I  have to  discontinue using
> software under this license? 

I was trying to restrict this to intellectual property claims derived 
from software patents. Do you think the wording is ambiguous?

Let's try it like that:

5. If you are owner of software patents you agree to refrain from
any legal action based on infringement of your intellectual property 
claims derived from __said_patents__ against users of open source 
software and concerning open source software as defined by the Open 
Source Initiative (OSI).

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