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Re: A priori IPR choices

2007-10-24 04:00:49
Scott Kitterman <scott(_at_)kitterman(_dot_)com> wrote:

And that will never fly (IANAL) with the GPL and so here we sit at an 
impasse again.  So either a GPL implementation is important to 
interoperability in a given space or it is not.  If it is important to 
interoperabilty, then this is a showstopper.  If not, maybe not.

Do you have any specific example of an internet standard for which you
think that lack of GPL-compatible licensing of any (perhaps just
hypothetical) relevant patents would not cause interoperability serious
problems if the patent holder chose to aggressive enforce the terms of
that non-GPL-compatible patent license?

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb(_at_)bollow(_dot_)ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG    http://SIUG.ch
Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
truly /open/ international standards organization  http://OpenISO.org

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