On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Ben Tilly ([email protected]): > >> This makes me wonder whether clever license terms would be patentable >> under US law. > > So, Ben: What did you determine when you measured that notion against, > say... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentable_subject_matter#United_States > > ?
There is logic, and then there is the trend of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit setting precedents making virtually anything and everything patentable subject matter. Your phrase "a software licence consists solely of functional elements" just triggered cynicism on my part that the CAFC could take that idea as a basis to try and expand patents. Yet again. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
