Re: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-18 Thread Mark Shewmaker
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:48:49PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: NRL hereby grants a fully paid up, nonexclusive, royalty free license to practice the patent 6,266,704 if and only if such practice is the generation, modification, distribution, and/or execution of a computer program or

Re: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-17 Thread Paul Syverson
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:00:27 -0400 From: Mark Shewmaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:09:43PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: [snip] I would like the Open Patent license to provide all of these things, with some caveats: To allow proprietary interfaces into the

RE: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-17 Thread Vries Gerjon de
I've thought about this, and it is my hope that the license I circulated precludes it. Clauses 4 and 5 read. 4. Source code for all programs used under this license must be publicly available, and public notice provided of means to obtain said source code. 5. The publicly

RE: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-17 Thread Paul Syverson
From: Vries Gerjon de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:25:32 +0200 I've thought about this, and it is my hope that the license I circulated precludes it. Clauses 4 and 5 read. 4. Source code for all programs used under this license must be publicly available, and

Re: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-17 Thread Florian Weimer
Paul Syverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NRL hereby grants a fully paid up, nonexclusive, royalty free license to practice the patent 6,266,704 if and only if such practice is the development or use of computer software such that 1. Source code for all programs developed under this license

GPL-like patent license

2002-07-16 Thread Paul Syverson
Hello, The US govt. specifically NRL, has a patent on an anonymous communications infrastructure called Onion Routing. I am one of the inventors. We are working on a GPL/LGPL-like license for this. As you may know, US govt. work is not subject to copyright and thus cannot be GPLed directly,

Re: GPL-like patent license

2002-07-16 Thread Mark Shewmaker
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:09:43PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: Hello, The US govt. specifically NRL, has a patent on an anonymous communications infrastructure called Onion Routing. I am one of the inventors. We are working on a GPL/LGPL-like license for this. Excellent. My purpose is