Totally agree. But can the USG file patents? I suppose research
organizations can (MITRE, maybe even NASA?) so it's not that academic; but
presumably any place where this public domain arises, it applies to
patents too. Would be nice to get that sorted.
Brian
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Chris DiBona wrote:
In military contracting , patent grants are key to the point where I wouldn't
consider a non patent granting license from, say, lockheed as being open source
at all.
On Aug 18, 2016 3:05 PM, "Tzeng, Nigel H." <nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
On 8/18/16, 3:57 PM, "License-discuss on behalf of Lawrence Rosen"
<license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org on behalf of lro...@rosenlaw.com>
wrote:
>Nigel Tzeng wrote:
>> The issue here is for code that is potentially quite substantial. I
>>would think that would be a different scenario.
>
>If I include the works of Shakespeare in my software, it would of course
>be substantial and yet still be public domain almost everywhere (?).
If patents aren't a concern then okay. Copyright lasts longer than
patents so for anything that is in the public domain because of age then
no patents would still apply.
There isn¹t a lot of code that has aged out. Only code written between
before 1963 and didn¹t get a renewal.
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