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[spf-discuss] Re: Open Patent certification mark

2007-04-27 16:44:24
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Mark Shewmaker wrote:
So our use of the "Open Patent" certification mark would mean a change
(i.e. a restriction) in how people are allowed to use the marked
pieces of software, right?

Concretely, it would prevent people from combining a GPL-licensed
software (e.g. postfix-policyd-spf-perl) with another GPL-licensed
software that contains non-OPL-free (but GPL-compatible)
patents/PLIPs, right?

Yes and no.

It would not prevent people from making this newly combined work.  It
would prevent them from calling this newly combined work an Open Patent
work.

Thanks for the clarification.  (I really need to learn to keep the copy- 
right/patent license and certification-mark license things separate in my 
head.  This cert-mark concept was new to me so I have been mixing them 
up.)

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