Simon Josefsson simon@josefsson.org writes:
I agree that it would be better if the license said "for any purpose".
I wonder if that is compatible with the current patent system. Isn't there some requirement that you need to protect infringement on your patent somehow?
Not true. For example, see any "submarine patent" where the holder keeps a granted patent quiet for many years and then surfaces only when some implementation of it is widely accepted.
You may be thinking, instead, of trademark monopolies, which *do* decay if not enforced by the holder.