IBM pledges free access to patents for standards

IBM pledges free access to patents for standards

Posted Jul 11, 2007 17:01 UTC (Wed) by riel (subscriber, #3142)
In reply to: IBM pledges free access to patents for standards by sbergman27
Parent article: IBM pledges free access to patents for standards

It appears to cover more than free software: all implementations of free
standards.

Want to implement ODF? IBM will not sue you over your software
implementing ODF, even if they happen to have a patent under some
underlying technology (not saying they have, but who knows).

Want to sue somebody else over their ODF implementation? Your IBM patent
license automatically expires. Sue at your own peril.

At least, that is how I understood it :)

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