3 Questions: Patent Commons Protection (ITBusinessEdge)
ITBusinessEdge talks with OSDL general counsel Diane Peters about the patent commons project. "
With increasing frequency, institutions, companies and inventors want to formally signal to open source developers, distributors and users that software patents they hold are not a threat or inhibitor to the development or use of open source. The patent commons gives them a forum in which to do so. As for patent holders who assign their patents to OSDL, they are relieved of the administrative burdens associated with licensing their patents to various players in the open source community."