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I'm sure you can do that for GPL software aswell, and i don't see witch part of that clause forbids it.

The argument seems to be as following:

You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD.

GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.