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Patent grant is additional

Patent grant is additional

Posted May 24, 2010 23:46 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Patent grant is additional by webmink
Parent article: WebM: Missing The Assurances Open Source Needs? (ComputerWorld)

Talk to the vendors/communities involved with the older versions of the licenses and do a press release suggesting alternatives. Talk to the communities which already consider these licenses non-free and get quotes if necessary Drop the licenses from the OSI approved list and write in detail in a blog post about why.


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