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.
>
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