From 9c71310bb692957026b78ad512c0d84f3d72a064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:39:32 -0800 Subject: Add an explicit patent grant to the Go license. R=rsc CC=golang-dev http://codereview.appspot.com/194066 --- LICENSE | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'LICENSE') diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 7ed1c06f5..d77335ff8 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -25,3 +25,18 @@ // THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT // (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE // OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +// +// Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Google hereby +// grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, +// royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent +// license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and +// otherwise transfer this implementation of Go, where such license +// applies only to those patent claims licensable by Google that are +// necessarily infringed by use of this implementation of Go. If You +// institute patent litigation against any entity (including a +// cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this +// implementation of Go or a Contribution incorporated within this +// implementation of Go constitutes direct or contributory patent +// infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this +// License for this implementation of Go shall terminate as of the date +// such litigation is filed. -- cgit v1.2.1