[Zlib-devel] zlib and LZMA

[Greg Roelofs]

"William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe at rowe-clan.net> wrote:

[much good stuff about standard licenses]

> totally usable by every community.  For patent protection, which is really
> a much bigger issue than the whole copyleft debate, perhaps look at the
> Apache Software License 2.0.  But of course, anything he does to ensure
> that nobody plays patent games around his sphere of work will undermine
> compatibility with the GPL which permits no other restrictions.

That's true of GPLv1 and GPLv2.  GPLv3 (draft) includes moderately strong
patent-related language.

	http://lwn.net/Articles/193183/
	http://lwn.net/Articles/193118/

Greg