On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nagarjuna G.<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Just to add: similarly if a software includes patented ideas and is released under GPLv3, then the copyright holder is explicitly making it unencumbered. -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
