Totally agree. But can the USG file patents? I suppose research organizations can (MITRE, maybe even NASA?) so it's not that academic; but presumably any place where this public domain arises, it applies to patents too. Would be nice to get that sorted.
Brian On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Chris DiBona wrote:
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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