Dear Libreplanet Members, I have sent enquiries to the Free Software Foundation, Inc (licens...@gnu.org & g...@gnu.org) but did not get any reply. So, I have to ask here instead. What we need is a clarification regarding GPLv3.
We in the process releasing a software module as an open source software. The product is meant to be used by health-care providers (eg:hospitals) and we are interested to make it open and free for everybody to use it. We are planning to use GPL v3 for the product. However there is an area that need to be clarified specifically referring to GPL item 11 which says “Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.”. We would like to clarify whether the above statement means that :- a) We need to have a patent registered for our module before using the GPLv3 license; or b) We can use GPLv3 without having any patent registered nor any plan to register for the patent Your kind clarification and explanation are very much appreciated. Thank you. http://www.mampu.gov.my http://www.moh.gov.my http://www.oscc.org.my Regards -- Jamalulkhair Khairedin Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) 2nd Floor, MKN-Embassy Techzone Building Block B, No. 3200 Jalan Teknokrat 2 63000 Cyberjaya Selangor, Malaysia -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.