[llvm-dev] RFC #3: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community (original) (raw)

Daniel Berlin via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Sun Apr 23 09:19:58 PDT 2017

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 9:15 AM, André Jansen Medeiros Villar via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

2017-04-23 12:50 GMT-03:00 Mark Kettenis via llvm-dev <_ _llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:

In particular, if you use code under the Apache 2 license, some of your rights will terminate if you claim in court that the code violates a patent.

I'm really ignorant of the legal nuances but this is my question: Isn't it irrelevant what the licence says in this case? No.

The limitation of rights happens anyways, because patent law trumps copyright law, no ?

No.

But note, the license only terminates patent rights, not copyright ones. So to the degree there were no patents involved, it has terminated nothing.

I am making an honest question, not intended to sparkle a flame war or to be trollish. With that said I will recognize here that i do not agree with with the openBSD or even the the GPLv3 folks. Also could you suggest what kind of alteration would make you guys happy and still provide for patent protection for individuals and corporations? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20170423/76e2a892/attachment.html>

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