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Posted Sep 12, 2009 6:29 UTC (Sat) by tdwebste (guest, #18154)In reply to: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch) by elanthis
Parent article: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)
As long as Microsoft's new open source strategy is NOT
- a means of incorporating Microsoft patents into open source,
- and using the incorporated patents to collect royalties and as result
restrict open source usage and growth,
I am 100% in support.
Microsoft and other Corporate contributors must come clean and clearly
state that they authorized usage of any patents infringed upon by their
open source contributions.
GPL v3 solves this patent problem in paragraph 11.
11. Patents.
A contributor is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License
of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work thus
licensed is called the contributor's contributor version.
Posted Sep 12, 2009 6:37 UTC (Sat)
by tdwebste (guest, #18154)
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Its too long to copy in full, please see
Patents
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html