Re: Re: cvs: CVSROOT / avail loginfo

On 20.12.2007, at 17:57, David Zülke wrote:

Then read it again. It's pretty clear.

3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution(s) alone or by combination of Your Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If any entity institutes patent litigation against You or any other entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that your Contribution, or the Work to which you have contributed, constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this Agreement for that Contribution or Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed. This tells me that I need to have all patents that the code infringes upon. I know that there is this "licensedable by You" thingi in there, but sorry I cannot parse run on sentences like that. Does licenseable by You mean that I have to grant the license or that I am legaqlly entitled to even grant that license? I was taught in school to use the "." every so often and if lawyers don't know how to construct licenses that contain run on sentences, then I guess I am not signing their bla bla. 4. You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your Contributions, you represent that you have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that employer, that your employer has waived such rights for your Contributions to the Foundation, or that your employer has executed a separate Corporate CLA with the Foundation. I especially do not understand what "licenseable by You" means in the light of section 4. which seems to be concerned about if I am allowed to grant the "above" licenses. To me this means that in this case "licensable by You" in the 3. section then means that they are talking about the things I am supposed to license and not what I am legally entitled to license. Which in turns means to me that 3. requires that I grant a license to all patents the code infringes upon and that number 4. mandates that I actually have the legal right to grant those licenses. regards, Lukas