Re: [ossig] Don't stifle innovation

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/22/05 08:02 Colin Charles said the following:
> Also, look at patent promises:
> http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
> 
> So go ahead, patent something, and create a policy that's OSS friendly.

the redhat policy is /NOT/ open source friendly. quote,

"Approved License means any of the following licenses: GNU General Public 
License v2.0; IBM Public License v1.0; Common Public License v0.5; Q Public 
License v1.0; Open Software License v1.1; and any open source license 
granted by Red Hat. Red Hat may add to this list in its sole discretion by 
publication on this page."

i sure don't see the BSD, Mozilla and Artistic Licenses in there, to name a 
few of the widely used ones.

as of now, RH's patent policy is no different than microsoft's when it 
comes to BSD.

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