Patents and the open-source community
Patents and the open-source community
Posted Jun 6, 2016 19:32 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977)In reply to: Patents and the open-source community by jcm
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That was kind of strange because the FSF was not the leader in putting patent protection clauses into FOSS licenses. Mozilla or Apache seemed to be the first one mentioning patents in copyright licenses. You should blame these first, right?
Posted Jun 6, 2016 21:29 UTC (Mon)
by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562)
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Patents and the open-source community
I don't think those are comparable, due to the commonly used "or later" clause in GPL licensing allowing a lot of existing projects to migrate to GPLv3 effortlessly.