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Free Software friendly patent pools

Free Software friendly patent pools

Posted Aug 26, 2010 12:01 UTC (Thu) by zotz (guest, #26117)
In reply to: Free Software friendly patent pools by hingo
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

If done right, it would turn non-copyleft Free Software dealing with said patents into effectively copyleft Free Software unless one obtained another patent license. Correct? Is that wanted by the folks using said licenses?

all the best,

drew


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