Re: [myoss] Re: [ossig] Don't stifle innovation

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:00 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> > 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.

They don't hold BSD, Mozialla, or Artistic Licensed based stuff that
they could register a software patent for

Right before the snippet:
"Our Promise with Respect to Software Patents We Hold
Definitions:"

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

http://www.novell.com/company/policies/patent/ looks more to your liking
I guess

What is Microsoft's policy when it comes to BSD?
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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