2 Jan
2020
2 Jan
'20
2:53 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:28:03AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
IBM takes its responsibility as a world-leader extremely seriously, and they're providing an extremely sneaky royalty-free patent license for POWER ISA, which says, "you get free unrestricted use of these patents as long as you don't ever try to assert a patent - ever - against us, IBM".
*that's* clever :)
Aren't there similar terms in the GPL3? Except of course you get to use the software instead of any patents?
-- hendrik