Firefox and Moonlight (Mono) "Free Software" Status?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 2 16:07:03 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> I disagree with the FSF on just about every point regarding the best
> ways to encourage the development and use of open source software, but
> this position on patents is even more bizarre than usual. I can sort-of
> understand the claim that patent coverage is harder to determine, but in
> cases where it is obvious, how can restrictions imposed by patents be
> considered any differently than restrictions imposed by other people's
> copyrights with respect to whether the GPL can be applied to the work as
> a whole with its explicit claim of redistribution rights under its own
> terms?
Unlike copyrights, patents are far from universally enforced. If you
want to further clarifications, I suggest you take it with FSF rather
than here.
Rahul
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