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IBM frees 500 patentsIBM frees 500 patentsPosted Jan 12, 2005 1:55 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)In reply to: IBM frees 500 patents by jamesh Parent article: IBM frees 500 patents
> So a BSD licensed program using one of these patents wouldn't strictly be BSD licensed.
Sure it would, just as much as it was before! The BSD license is a copyright license and has nothing to do with patents. The big difference is that now, the patented process embedded in BSD-licensed code can legally be used for *some* purposes, whereas before it would have been illegal for any purposes (despite the perfectly valid BSD-style copyright license on the code itself).
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