Brian E Carpenter <brc(_at_)zurich(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> writes:
On 2007-04-11 11:34, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Just one comment:
Brian E Carpenter writes:
On 2007-04-11 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote:
What typically happens in practice, among good-faith
practitioners, is that there won't be any GPL (or Apache, or
Mozilla, or ...) implementation of the patented technology at
all, because the necessary rights cannot be acquired.
Doesn't that sound like a bug in the OSS licenses to you, assuming
the desired result is to make the Internet work better?
In this kind of situation, what would _you_ choose?
[ ] Apply for an IPR license/sign an NDA/do other paperwork
[ ] Violate someone's something
[ ] Go do something else
My choice tends to be the last, because my goal is generally not to
implement some specific technology, it is to increase people's
happiness and productivity. I can do that by implementing whatever
Mark has patented. Or in any of ten thousand other ways. See?
[X] Use a different OSS license that doesn't have this perceived problem.
How would using, say, the MIT or BSD license give you or your users
the right to violate someone's patent?
The problem would be the same even if you were to release your
implementation under the Windows or Mac OS X license.
/Simon
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