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authorIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2010-01-25 15:39:32 -0800
committerIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2010-01-25 15:39:32 -0800
commit85196728bf8130782a5ea760a82e5986329f07da (patch)
treee7f00646ba844219eb71c5db2c667aff0c74d0a8 /LICENSE
parent36226b7d4da04d1ac76efef4c063f0da68ffaa54 (diff)
downloadgolang-85196728bf8130782a5ea760a82e5986329f07da.tar.gz
Add an explicit patent grant to the Go license.
R=rsc CC=golang-dev http://codereview.appspot.com/194066
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@@ -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.