On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Matt Giuca <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, looks like Europe just did the exact *opposite* of this -- it was on > Slashdot this morning: > > http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/EuroParliament%20to%20exclude%20Free%20Software%20with%20patents%20and%20FRAND > > They intend to introduce FRAND ("fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory") > patent licensing law, which would mean you can't simply withhold patent > licenses, you need to license them to anyone who wants them under > reasonable terms. But they intend to exclude free software from the > definition. (I'm not too sure on the details, but it doesn't sound good.)
The details are here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2011&nu_doc=0315 The (F)RAND requirements are exposed in "ANNEX II REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RECOGNITION OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF ICT" I searched for "open source" and "free software" in the entire document - 0 occurrences. Adrian _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
