Contributors grant a royalty-free patent license (GPL-3.0 §11)
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- GPL-3.0 §11: each contributor grants a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under its essential patent claims to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate its contributor version. §10 bars initiating patent litigation alleging that making, using or selling the Program infringes a patent claim.
- Applies when
- All recipients of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3/AGPLv3) software.
- Applies to
- GPL-3.0; LGPL-3.0; AGPL-3.0