On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:54:23AM +0000, John Funnell wrote: > Dear all, > > GPL v2 and v3 have anti-patent clauses that says, in effect, that if > anyone arranges a patent license for distribution of the code, they > have to arrange that license for all possible downstream recipients of > the code and derivatives. > > I would like to take this one step further so that the anti-patent > clause covers use as well as distribution. I propose the license > below, a BSD derivative. > > The aim, like GPL, is to drive a wedge between the software patent > business and open software and the hope is to encourage the > neutralisation (i.e. licensing for all) of critical patents that > threaten popular free software. > > I am aware that the clause proposed only covers third-party patents: > it might be worth rewording or including a clause to cover patents > owned by the user/re-distributor themselves. > > I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if (a) there is an > existing license that does this and (b) whether this would qualify as > true open source.
I'm afraid I'm a month late here, but . . .
http://copyfree.org/licenses/coil/license.txt
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