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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/14/2026 8:24 AM, Richard Fontana
via License-review wrote:<br>
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As Luis's message shows, I was reading MPL-2.0 incorrectly. Defensive
termination is triggered by patent assertions but terminates copyright
as well as patent license grants. (That would seem to be true of GPLv3
as well, unless copyright claims are implicitly also a "further
restriction".) I think my reading of EPL-2.0 was correct.
Richard
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At the risk of spinning this discussion off of the topic at question
(approval of MDW-1.1), I'm interested in how you get to this
conclusion on GPLv3 (and if it also applies to GPLv2). I think MPLv2
and EPLv2 are pretty clear on this point (but with different
results).<br>
The language in GPLv3 to me could be read different ways, as I
pointed out before. Sec 7's discussion of "further restrictions" is
qualified by "additional terms" which I'm not sure can be read to
encompass patent litigation (but possibly could encompass a
settlement?). Does that mean patent litigation a termination
condition under Sec 8 ("<span
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may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly
provided under this License</span>")? If that's the case, wouldn't
it also apply to the more vaguely written language in Sec 4 of GPLv2
(I'm not sure I can read Sec 7 of GPLv2 to impact a patent
asserter).
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