Re: Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) > I don't see how that can possibly coexist with this sentence of the > GPL, section 7: > > : if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of > : the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly > : through you, then

Re: Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

2002-12-31 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > From: James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From Bruce: >> > The code that makes use of >> > the patented principle must be under the MIT license, which allows a >> > scope-limited patent license. That may be linked into GPL code and >> > distributed. >> >>

Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do you have any reason to think that the position you defend will > satisfy Patent holders ? Some of them have threatened to walk off of W3C in response to even so mild a position as the draft policy. Nobody thinks they'll really do it. But your question