From: Michael Havens Subject: Re: microsoft vs. OSS on NPR Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:27:51 -0700 > On Friday 18 May 2007 9:23 am, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > they will be required by the license to convey the patent protection to all > > GNU/Linux users. > > My mind can't grasp this. What do you mean? To me you are being ambiguous. Under GPLv3 to "convey" a work means "any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies, excluding sublicensing." M$ is selling coupons good for SUSE Linux so they are actually a Linux distributor (using the old GLPv2 term) and need to abide by the GPL which means that if they give a patent license to some (Novell's customers) they must give it to all. Quoting from section 11: a "patent license" means ... a covenant not to bring suit for patent infringement... So Micro$oft's attempt to divide and conquer the F/OSS community will fail. Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss