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Licenses and patents

Licenses and patents

Posted May 10, 2010 13:53 UTC (Mon) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: Licenses and patents by cesarb
Parent article: A conference on software patents and free software

Not only is the statement false, but even if it were true, the "GPL family of licenses" is about half of all the open source software out there. It's not like Microsoft can claim it is not a problem for open source.


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