On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:44 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi! I'm writing guidelines for IETF document authors on how to achieve > free software compatible copyright and patent licenses [1]. The > copyright area is rather well understood, I think; pick any liberal > license that is compatible with all (reasonable) free software licenses > and you are done. > > However, the patent license area seems less clear to me. > > Does anyone have some references to any patent license that have been > deemed acceptable to some free software projects?
The GPLv3 now embeds a patent license grant so that's one. IIRC Apache and Eclipse license also have patent provisions. This is the RedHat promise on software patents: http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html Not sure you can call it a license technically, but it is what Red Hat uses to let free software projects use his patents. Simo. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
