Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:02:09 +0100
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The problem: if IBM supplies 24x7 support for Linux, they will want
> > to tweak the code to help their customers. No problem, and it falls
> > under the GPL of course. What if IBM uses an IBM patent? It would be
> > very bad (from their point of view) if that somehow gave everyone
> > rights to the patent.
>
> [snip] but I can see the sanity of
> making the GPL require the patent is granted to GPL'd software only. That
> protects its value in the legacy (grin) proprietary software market. That
> doesn't seem too unreasonble an idea.
Could you evaluate on the above a bit, please?
Andrej
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Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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