From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T13:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Open Source Licenses against Software Patents

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:25:19 +0900, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:
> Applying for a new RubyForge project is harder than I thought :-), cause I have
> to choose a suitable license. I'd like to have a very liberal and easily
> understandable one like the MIT license [1] for example. But I also want to
> explicitly exclude companies holding software patents from this license. Do you
> know of any licenses with similar goals?

This makes any such prospective license discriminatory, and hence not
a valid Free Software or Open Source license. If your goal is to
prevent a patent holder from getting to you, licenses with a mutual
termination clause such as the MPL or the upcoming GPLv.3 (so I hear)
will serve. But what you seem to want is in violation of the essence
of what makes a license a Free/Open Source license in the first place.