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Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)Posted Nov 6, 2012 8:42 UTC (Tue) by farnz (guest, #17727)In reply to: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired) by bojan Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)
Limiting patents such that they don't apply to open source (except where you use that as part of a proprietary whole) fits nicely with the goals of the patent system; the aim is to encourage disclosure of trade secrets, after all, and a working implementation of the idea is good disclosure. Note that you'd probably want language like the GNU GPL's language around "preferred form for modification"; it would be a shame if the result was a return to the days of obfuscated C source code, as was common in the commercial UNIX era.
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