On 12/11/15 07:00, [email protected] wrote: > There were a few questions relating to what happens to the licenses > we already use. We described how this works in our FAQ > (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/patents/), questions 1 and 3. > The goal of MOSPL and its surrounding work is to create an open > patent license that flips the patent right from exclusive to > inclusive for open innovation; specifically in situations when folks > were not taking our code (licensed under MPL, etc.) or implementing a > spec we have licensed as a part of a standard (Opus standard, etc.).
But we'll be implementing pretty much any spec we have patents in. So it will always be possible to take code implementing the standard (and so our patent) under a license with MPL-level or weaker copyleft. Often, a patent covers just a few lines of code, which can be easily extracted, and complying with the MPL is not particularly onerous. So I'm not sure how anyone would ever want to take _our_ patents under MOSPL given that the terms impose more obligations than the patent license the MPL gives. Of course, if other organizations adopt the MOSPL, that calculus may be different. They may only provide GPLed implementations, or may not provide an open source implementation at all. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
