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Line 58: ===Patent retaliation=== "Patent retaliation" clauses are included in several [[free software ~~licences~~licenses]]. The goal of these clauses is to create a penalty so as to discourage the licensee (the user/recipient of the software) from suing the licensor (the provider/author of the software) for [[patent infringement]] by terminating the ~~licence~~license upon the initiation of such a lawsuit. The [[Free Software Foundation]] included a narrow patent retaliation clause in drafts 1 and 2 of version 3 of the GPL, however, this clause was removed in draft 3 as its enforceability and effectiveness was decided to be too dubious to be worth the added complexity.<ref>{{cite web

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