Russell McOrmond wrote: [...] > Note: There are all these Halloween documents discussing the OSI > battle-of-words with Microsoft, but I wonder why there is no similar > discussion with IBM?
Well, see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.php and, perhaps, also http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/ibm.pdf "[...] IBM has an open patent licensing policy under which we are prepared to licence our patents on a non-discriminatory world-wide basis. Moreover, IBM licences on a royalty-free basis the patents that are necessarily implemented by the use or sale of our open source contributions, a policy that has been endorsed by the Open Source Initiative." regards, alexander. P.S. europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/eicta.pdf -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
