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A conference on software patents and free softwareA conference on software patents and free softwarePosted Apr 30, 2010 22:06 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)Parent article: A conference on software patents and free software
> The DPL would promote the defensive use of software patents in a way which
> reinforces the free software community's norms; it is meant to be similar > in spirit to the GPL. A company which buys into the DPL will put all of > its patents under that license. Any other DPL licensee could then > automatically obtain a royalty-free license for any of those patents
To stretch the "patent cold war" metaphor, that sounds like mutual nuclear disarmament. :)
Seems similar to the OIN, but instead of joining an organization, you just announce a license? Are there any other significant differences?
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