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IBM frees 500 patentsIBM frees 500 patentsPosted Jan 12, 2005 3:09 UTC (Wed) by kmself (subscriber, #11565)In reply to: IBM frees 500 patents by LogicG8 Parent article: IBM frees 500 patents
I t does kind of "ruin" the BSD license. Bollox. BSD never granted patent rights. If anything, this strengthens BSD. Code released under BSD/MIT/Apache licenses are now granted a patent license. Porprietized derivations must, as with any other proprietary software, arrange for licensing terms with IBM (or take their lumps). If anything, it provides a stronger incentive to not free-ride on BSD terms. Not that BSDers have a problem with this (it's what their license grants, and what most of them explicitly want to provide). But it should make the software itself somewhat more tenable. I see a plus.
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