In military contracting , patent grants are key to the point where I wouldn't consider a non patent granting license from, say, lockheed as being open source at all.
On Aug 18, 2016 3:05 PM, "Tzeng, Nigel H." <nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu> wrote: > On 8/18/16, 3:57 PM, "License-discuss on behalf of Lawrence Rosen" > <license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org on behalf of lro...@rosenlaw.com> > wrote: > > > >Nigel Tzeng wrote: > >> The issue here is for code that is potentially quite substantial. I > >>would think that would be a different scenario. > > > >If I include the works of Shakespeare in my software, it would of course > >be substantial and yet still be public domain almost everywhere (?). > > If patents aren't a concern then okay. Copyright lasts longer than > patents so for anything that is in the public domain because of age then > no patents would still apply. > > There isn¹t a lot of code that has aged out. Only code written between > before 1963 and didn¹t get a renewal. > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >
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