Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm claiming nothing except what the GPL explicitly states.
Let's drive down to a specific thing that you claimed.
"So, whatever number of software patents exist, plus the number of
things where the code with a non-GPL copyright is the best version -
that is the number of things that Microsoft can include by making
suitable licensing arrangements, and doing so is what keeps them in
business. The only way a product that includes GPL'd code can contain
any of those things is if someone buys the right to allow unlimited free
redistribution and there is no practical way for many users to share the
cost of that. "
Freespire is a product which includes GPL'ed code and certainly has
patent licensed components within the product which did not require the
patent licensee to allow unlimited free distribution. Either refute the
clear cut example or accept that what you said is simply not true.
Rahul
