2013/4/20 Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org> > Anyway, everything else about the post appears solid except for one > thing. It recommends the MIT license, which has no patent protection > whatsoever; this could open you and your users up to liabilities in ways > that are impossible to predict given that the United States Patent > Office's tendency to grant patents without examining them first. So I > strongly caution against using licenses which don't include patent grant > clauses unless it's for throw-away code. While the Apache license can be > annoying in all the boilerplate it requires, at least it doesn't have > this problem. >
Ii wasn't immediately clear to me, but it makes sense, given how short the MIT license is. What licenses does it make sense to recommend? I'll update the post because, indeed, we [maintainers] can't ignore patent protection. -- MK http://github.com/michaelklishin http://twitter.com/michaelklishin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
