Review

• Distributors of GPL software implicitly license patents
• You can't distribute GPL software if patent licenses don't let everyone do so
  
• The Linux Kernel has no exceptions to the GPL
  
• There are two standard exceptions to the GPL
  • These are at the copyright holders' choice
    
• Copyright holders can cut off countries due to patents or interface copyrights
• The GPL is upgradable
  

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