Hi all,
Does anyone have good examples of patent grants that meet the terms of this policy? For example, has anyone actually licensed patents in this way for use by the Open Source community? Is there a well-defined way to make a patent royalty-free for Open Source while still collecting royalties from commercial users?http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28135.html W3C rejects net patent tax, avoids web schism By Andrew Orlowski 16/11/2002 The web standards consortium W3C has agreed on a policy that should prevent nasty royalty surprises for developers in the future.
Personally, I'm mostly happy that W3C is planning to go this route, but I'm curious how it will work out in practice. I'm curious whether there are any existing licenses that are already consistent with this policy.
-- Ernie P.
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