I'm aware most Open Source licenses have patent grants. But
in all the
cases I've seen, those grants are tied to the specific
implementation.
My impression is that the W3C requires that the patents be
royalty-free for all possible implementations, not just your own.
Right? Is
Hi Larry,
You wrote:
The patent grants in most open source licenses are fully compatible
with
the W3C patent policy. The patent grants in the OSL and AFL are *not*
tied to specific implementations and are broader than the W3C patent
grant.
I understand they may be compatible, but I'm not
Ernie Prabhakar asked (with reference to the W3C patent policy):
Does anyone have good examples of patent grants that meet the
terms of
this policy? For example, has anyone actually licensed
patents in this
way for use by the Open Source community? Is there a
well-defined way
to
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