Re: Red-Hat-Patente beunruhigen Linux-Fans ??? – Red-Hat-Patente beunruhigen Linux-Fans

> > und müssen – was die GPL fordert – den Krempel unter die GPL stellen.
> > Und den unter GPL stehenden Krempel kann jeder im Rahmen der GPL
> > nutzen
>
> Nutzen ja, aber nicht unter den Bedingungen der GPL weiterverbreiten,
> wenn der Original-Patentinhaber das nicht will…
Aus http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt:
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making
the
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
patent must be licensed for everyone’s free use or not licensed at
all.
und weiter:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program’s
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any
warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.
[...]
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that
in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
Also, wenn ich “derived work” verbreite, muß es unter der GPL sein,
die GPL erlaubt aber die Weitergabe und Nutzung des Quellcodes,
Patente hin oder her.