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From CC's own admission, the dedication and fallback license are not
primarily intended for software, but for scientific data.<br>
Again by their own admission, the <i>intent </i>was to exclude a
patent grant. This is of course the wrong answer for software.<br>
It would be simple enough for us to construct a version of the
document without the problem. We have sufficient counsel available.<br>
So, the only reason to approve the version with the problem is that
it comes from CC, and that we feel it's important to support CC even
when the result isn't that good for software. If this is the case,
we would be approving the document for political reasons rather than
because it's a good document for software developers to use.<br>
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Under the CC document, a party that has licensed a patent and
dedicates the software exercising that patent is obligated to help
the licensee of the patent to prosecute the party using the
software.<br>
Why would we want to put our own developers in that trap?<br>
If OSI approves the document, naive programmers will use it, relying
on OSI's imprimateur with no awareness of its problems.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Bruce<br>
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