On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM, jtd<[email protected]> wrote: > And can anybody elaborate how standards are going to be open and unencumbered > and yet covered by patents? >
If a standard includes patented ideas, and the holder of the patent does not license it for royalty free usage, and does not state that free software could use it, then such a standard is not open. Though Sun had patents on some ideas related to ODF, they allowed royalty free usage and that free software could use it, making ODF an open standard. Some of you think that only FSF is against software freedom and we are trying to push this on FOSSCOMM, please visit opensource.org and find out what they say. e.g. http://opensource.org/osr. -- Nagarjuna _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
