Hi Elvin, This is very interesting :-) Here are some initial questions.
On 03/11/15 14:54, [email protected] wrote: > Additionally, if you have any questions we can answer, please also > let us know. Looking forward to hearing your feedback! As I understand it, the MOSPL says: "if you want to use any of our MOSPL patents (absent another license), you need to allow open source software to use all your patents". Is that a fair summary? * Does Mozilla have any patents it plans to license under the MOSPL? * We use as our standard copyright license the MPL, which has a patent license but is a weak copyleft. Our alternative license is the Apache license, which has no copyleft. So if we have a patent embodied in our MPLed or Apache code, what is to prevent someone who doesn't like the MOSPL from just taking the MPLed/Apache files which implement the patent and using them in their otherwise-proprietary product, thereby avoiding the need to license their own patents to open source projects? In other words, surely for us to start building a commons here, we need to file some patents on things which _aren't_ in our products? * What's your ideal takeup strategy for the MOSPL? Is it hundreds of companies, all of which have their own version with their own name on it, but otherwise identical? Or something else? Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
