On Wednesday 03 September 2008 23:05:27 Alan Cox wrote: > > So for the two patents, I won't sign them, they go back to our parent > > company FIC and most likely they will file them under their name. > > Basically Openmoko donated them to FIC. Meanwhile we are working with > > the SFLC on a much better solution... > > What Red Hat did was to fashion a patent promise using estoppel. It means > we can patent stuff (alas we have no real choice) and avoid it harming > free software while being able to do things like use it to protect free > software against proprietary nasties.
The lack of such a policy[1] was a reason to not start at a toolkit provider that was recently acquired by a big company from Finland. The unique situation of Openmoko is that we produce Hardware as well. So which licenses make sense for Hardware products? z. [1] http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
