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You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD.
GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.
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You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD.
GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.