On Saturday 20 Sep 2008, narendra sisodiya wrote: > Hey, I got a idea that "can we GPL our ideas" ?? > Like normally I use to get a large number of ideas which I will not > able to implement in this life. But I want somebody should implement > those ideas. But I do not want that somebody should use them as > patent or propitiatory work. infact if Ideas are in GPL public domain > then everybody is allowed to implement it. So in the current licence > schemes , "can i publish my ideas under GPL or similar licence". > for example , let suppose I will a rocking idea for energy saving > system and will tell the way of implement it,But i will not implement > it, I want other companies to implement it. > So is it possible to deliver the rocking ideas in public domain > insuring that it will not be used for patent or similar purpose??
Interesting enough as the ``idea'' is :) , I'm afraid it's not feasible for multiple reasons. Firstly, what you're discussing is a form of ``pre-patent''. Patents are on ideas that have existing implementations. Now, patents are bad enough but if we permit, e.g. Microsux to start patenting ideas no one will ever be able to develop software again, since they'll just put 10,000 people into generating ideas and making them proprietary. Remember, you're not the only one with ideas, and GPL-ing them wouldn't be the only thing possible if the law permitted protecting ideas. Then there's the whole question of implementation. Current laws do not permit protecting ideas without implementations for a very good reason: ideas are a dime a dozen (no offence intended). That's one of the reasons you have both FSF and GNU -- the one generates ideas, and the other generates implementations of those ideas that can be protected by law. Third, no law currently exists to protect an idea. Sure, you can document it and protect the document using some licence, but if someone rewords the idea and creates a new document incorporating it she can use the same laws to protect her document too. The legal system currently doesn't (and probably never will) protect bare ideas themselves. The closest thing you can do today is to implement your idea and try to get a patent on it (which I personally believe is a bad move). You /may/ then be able to get some level of protection. Otherwise you're out of luck. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
