On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jari Arkko wrote:
Do you have examples of licenses/IPR declarations that work better with
GPL and other forms of open source? Something for Mark and the rest
of us to use as a model, perhaps?
A recent slap given by Apache to Sun
<http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html>
implies that the Java Community Process has very open requirements on
patent licences granted via the Java Specification Participation
Agreement. The ASF thought a lot about patent licensing to produce the
Apache Licence 2.0 - most other patent-aware open source licences are
sponsored by businesses rather than non-profit foundations.
Tony.
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