I literally don't understand how this is a better situation. Whether MIT implies a patent grant has never been tested in court, afaik.
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Permission is hereby granted to use without restriction... What are you thinking is the loophole?
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IANAL
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Seems legit. Then I think we're good.
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Well, you're much more confident about what the MIT license implies than any of the IP lawyers I ever talked to.
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Wait, what happened to IANAL. Why do you feel so confident about PATENTS. That's pretty untested too (and very strange, uncharted)
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It is pretty explicit, though. Unlike MIT which isn't.
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Not particularly strange or uncharted. This is similar text (albeit different conditions) as you find in Apache or W3C.
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I'm not worried about anything.
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Seems good. I was previously worried that the explicitness of the patent clause punched a hole in the "use without restriction"
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strategy. Those patents, if they exist, still do.