[pp.int.general] Patent system similar to GPL?

Gareth Nelson gareth at garethnelson.com
Sat Feb 26 11:43:03 CET 2011


There is something similar in the idea of licensing patents for free
use to the general public - not copyleft, but perhaps more comparable
to BSD-type licenses.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>    Their Labs "department" has already developed technologies and put them
>    under free/open source BiOS licenses:
>
> I am very surprised by that statement, since if true it would mean
> they have done something I believe is impossible.  Can you show us
> what their legal technique actually consists of?
>
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