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FSF's Position on Proposed W3 Consortium "Royalty-Free" Patent Policy
The Free Software Foundation has released a position
paper on the proposed patent policy from the W3 Consortium. "The
proposed policy permits W3C members participating in W3 technical working
groups to commit their patent claims "royalty-free" for use by implementers
of the standard, but with "field of use" restrictions that would be
incompatible with section 7 of the GNU General Public License. Such "field
of use" restrictions, in other words, would prevent implementation of W3C
standards as Free Software."
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