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The Open Web Foundation Agreement
The Open Web Foundation has announced
the availability of the Open Web Foundation
Agreement. This agreement is meant to cover web-related
specifications, ensuring that developers can implement those specifications
with minimal fear of copyright or patent suits. "This reusable
agreement is designed to be easily adopted by a wide range of specification
communities and organizations as an alternative to the challenging -- and
costly -- process of negotiating new licensing agreements every
time. Specifications made available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement
may include everything from small ad-hoc formats sketched out among friends
to large multi-corporation collaborations that ultimately grow into
international recognized standards with the help of formal standards
setting organizations."
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The Open Web Foundation Agreement Posted Nov 18, 2009 17:20 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] I'm not thrilled by the language. It seems to be IETF-esque in that the engineer who writes the specification makes the agreement (note the word "personal") rather than the engineer's employer. And I don't see how it could convey a defense against the engineer's employer's patents because of that.
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