"IBM will continue to hold the 500 patents. But it has pledged to seek
no royalties from and to place no restrictions on companies, groups or
individuals who use them in open-source projects, as defined by the
Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit education and advocacy group. The
group's definition involves a series of policies allowing for free
redistribution, publication of the underlying source code and no
restrictions on who uses the software or how it is used."
Should the FOSS community celebrate?
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From: PILCH Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:10:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [ffii] IBM releases 500 patents for opensource use
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See
http://wiki.ffii.org/Ibm0501En
for FFII's take on it.
A lot more news (including reactions to the restart motion)
are on
http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
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