Final W3C patent policy draft [LWN.net]

The World Wide Web Consortium has released yet another patent policy draft; there is a review period going through the end of April. According to the press release: "The W3C Royalty-Free license requirements are now consistent with generally recognized Open Source licensing terms." The policy still allows patent holders to impose field-of-use requirements, however. For details, see the policy draft or the "last call issues list" which gives the working group's responses to concerns with the previous draft.

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