Subject: Re: Royalty-Free Patent Policy (W3C)

From: Francois PELLEGRINI <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:02:53 +0100

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.