From - Thu Apr 17 14:32:25 2003 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: carl@andisplanet.com Received: from iona.labri.fr (majordomo.labri.fr [147.210.8.168]) by andisplanet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A35910E8 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:26:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.labri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38DD17CF7 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:00:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from iona.labri.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iona.labri.fr [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with SMTP id 14581-04 for ; lun, 24 mar 2003 14:00:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from labri.u-bordeaux.fr (brol.labri.fr [147.210.9.226]) by iona.labri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE8117CF3 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:00:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E7F100D.4040408@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:02:53 +0100 From: Francois PELLEGRINI Organization: INRIA & LaBRI, Universite Bordeaux I User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@ggpl.org Subject: Re: Royalty-Free Patent Policy (W3C) References: <20030323023513.12473.qmail@inbox.net> <3E7D3BAD.7040806@geraldgleason.com> <3E7ED677.9000704@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Hello all, Just another thing: the FSF is against the current proposed policy of W3C, because the ability to use the patents royalty-free is limited to some uses, while the GPL explicitely states that the covered software could be used for *any* purpose. The final word of the tale is then: - if GPL once, GPL forever - if patents once, patents forever - if patents once, GPL never f.p.