On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:37:55AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
I would ask the patent holders if they can explicitely allow Fedora
redistribution of vtk if it is deemed a viable modus by fedora
(legal?).
Which license is vtk under? If it is BSD-like I understand the issue, but
if it's (L)GPL the license text says it implies that the authors give a
royalty-free license of their own patents for anyone using the code under
the (L)GPL, and this is actually quite common I think, and then there is
no issue, we (all (L)GPL software) already have a license for the patents.
Unfortunately it's BSD like. I wasn't aware of this kind of difference
between the licenses, thanks for clarifying.
Still the issue remains: The authors have hold of the patents and
fedora extras would need special permission. Would fedora
extras/legal/"" go along?