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

["Raja Iskandar Shah" <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i wonder what's apple policy wrt to bsd ?


Raja Iskandar Shah
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----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Charles <byte@aeon.com.my>
Date: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:06 pm
Subject: Re: [myoss] Re: [ossig] Don't stifle innovation

> 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 
> likingI 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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