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Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel
On May 16, 2011, at 4:25 PM, al davis <ad252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2011, Steven Michalske wrote:
>> But lawyers can use that clause as a loophole to invalidate
>> legitimate patents.
>
> Minor side effect of "lawyers can use that clause as a loophole
> to invalidate ILLegitimate patents" ... which outnumber the
> ligitimate ones a million to one.
>
A software licence should not be used for this purpose... As a person with patents, I can't afford to contribute substantual code back, but I can use all the code I want. Because my patents are legitimate.
But this is straying from this lists topic.
I wish the best of luck to those that wish to reinvent this wheel, a gpl compatible library with a less restrictive licence bsd, MIT, etc... Could be used to extend pcb and gschem. And allow commercial interests to support us.
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