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The Open Web Foundation Agreement

The Open Web Foundation Agreement

Posted Nov 18, 2009 17:20 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
Parent article: The Open Web Foundation Agreement

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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