OSDL announces Patent Commons Project
[Posted August 9, 2005 by corbet]
Here is the announcement for OSDL's "patent commons" project. Details are scarce, but it looks like a way for individual developers to contribute patents to a pool where they would be licensed for use in free software - and, presumably, as a defensive weapon in the case of a patent-based attack on free software. The PR includes endorsements from Linus Torvalds and Eben Moglen.
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