On 02/25/2012 11:48 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > A patent-waiver license provides no protection against patent holders because they'll have somebody else release the code. I do know of a number of instances where a large and known-to-be-litigious patent holder uses such an intermediary. If I am the expert on the defense side, I'll try to connect the dots for the court to establish that an estoppel actually does exist. I don't know that I'd succeed, but it's worth a try. I am thinking back to Eolas. I don't believe that they understood when they did the original work that they would later decide use it as a litigation machine. This was publicly-funded research, and the U. California is the major partner. Thanks Bruce -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bruce.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 266 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20120225/0793ae0c/attachment.vcf> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4447 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20120225/0793ae0c/attachment.p7s>