Umm, this is interesting..

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Ralf Friedl wrote:
> I consider the assumption that he wants to cover his own ass 
> inconsistent with the paragraph where he writes:
> 
> > As sole author of both the atscap and the pchdtvr codebases,
> > the licenses under the GPL were granted at my sole
> > discretion and the licenses under the GPL are now hereby
> > revoked at my sole discretion.

If the author's concern is patent infringement, the statements 
are consistent. He can be sole author of software which infringes
on someone else's patent.

Arnoud

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