[License-review] CC withdrawl of CC0 from OSI process

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon Feb 27 16:57:32 UTC 2012


Tzeng, Nigel H. scripsit:
> IANAL so I can not answer whether the explicit limitation of the patent
> license in section 3 limits any other implicit patent license in any given
> jurisdiction.

Sorry.  I was looking at ECL 1.0, whereas you are plainly referring to
ECL 2.0.

> I would assume as a layperson that explicitly stating that no other
> express or implied patent licenses are granted trumps any implicit patent
> licenses that might be inferred from text elsewhere.

I think so too.

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