I am not a lawyer, but I can read,<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the
license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor
grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its
licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import,
and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or
derivative works of the contribution in the software.</blockquote><div><br>In section 3,<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
(B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents
that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from
such contributor to the software ends automatically. </blockquote><div><br><br>In summary: We won't sue you, if you don't sue us. If you do, then the gloves are off.<br><br>And let me reiterate: I am not a lawyer.
<br></div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Messerly</b> <<a href="mailto:jomes@microsoft.com">jomes@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>I am definitely not a lawyer, but I think this question is addressed in the Microsoft Permissive License (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/permissivelicense.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/permissivelicense.mspx
</a>). See section 2.b, "Patent Grant".<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>John<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com">users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com">
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com</a>] On Behalf Of Sanghyeon Seo<br>Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:10 PM<br>To: Discussion of IronPython<br>Subject: [IronPython] Patent concerns<br><br>Hi,<br><br>Recently on jvm-languages list, which is an interest group surrounding
<br>language implementation for the JVM, Frank Wierzbicki from Jython<br>project expressed the concern that Microsoft may hold a lot of patents<br>related to IronPython, so he is reluctant to look at the source code<br>even if it is open-sourced.
<br><br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/msg/0d16a82b53233a72">http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/msg/0d16a82b53233a72</a><br><br>Apparently, this seems to be a widespread concern. I think this is a
<br>pity, since in my opinion IronPython has a lot of good ideas that<br>would benefit language implementations on JVM.<br><br>So, please answer if possible. What patents Microsoft hold, related to<br>IronPython?<br><br>--
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