Lawrence Rosen scripsit: > * The FOSS license does not contain a patent license.
The issue appears to be whether there is a difference for OSI purposes between licenses that withhold patent rights and those which are silent about them. My view is that there is not, but others disagree. > There are many examples of patent-encumbered software where the > copyright owner doesn't own and can't license the patent. This is > the problem of third party patents and patent trolls and university > professors and US government employees. Inevitably so. In the nature of patents, no one can claim to indemnify a recipient against all possible patents. At most we can ask that the licensor himself license those which he has. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, and a rabbi who lets them do it isn't a man. --Jewish saying _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
