Hello Alexei,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
apodt...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote:
3. Grant of Patent License.
Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you
need it first before
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote:
3. Grant of Patent License.
Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you
need it first before granting any patent license? This is one strange
and curious discussion thread without a patent at
On 01/18/2012 10:08 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote:
3. Grant of Patent License.
Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you
need it first before granting any patent license? This is one
Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent?
AFAIK, no.
Don't you need it first before granting any patent license?
We want to cover contributed code. Let's assume that company XXX
contributes code to have support for its new font driver format in
FreeType, and we accept such
Are you willing to do the work to make sure no FreeType contributor
currently has a patent on code they have contributed?
This should be doable, given that there are just a handful of
contributors who added longer, non-trivial stuff.
Werner
On 01/13/2012 02:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Comments?
Are you willing to do the work to make sure no FreeType contributor currently
has a patent on code they have contributed?
Changing the license for upcoming contributions is a welcome addition to me,
without the hassle of relicensing.
