[Mimedefang] GPLv3

[Richard Laager]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:22 -0400, Jeff Rife wrote:
> One other reason to go to GPL3 is if you have gotten any fairly large 
> chunk of code from a 3rd party and included it in MIMEDefang.  GPL3 is 
> supposed protect you from being sued for patent infringement for that 
> code.

For the sake of the archives...

That would only help if that code was GPLv3 or GPLv[12]-or-later. You
can't take code and release it under a different license, of course. And
if it's not already available under the GPLv3, you can't use anything in
the GPLv3.

Richard
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