NASA and open-source software - public domain

NASA and open-source software - public domain

Posted Feb 17, 2023 8:56 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: NASA and open-source software - public domain by david.a.wheeler
Parent article: NASA and open-source software

if you contribute to the project, you grant patent uses.

Only if you own the patent. I was trying to describe the case where you might unknowingly reimplement someone else's patent. Which is entirely possible, even in the absence of patent trolls. (Unless you believe that non-troll patents are in fact so innovative and groundbreaking that the chances of someone else stumbling on the same solution to a similar problem are truly negligible)

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