Open Source Licenses and Embrace-Extend-Extinguish

[Matthew Flaschen]

msibley at itoperators.com wrote:

> Regarding protocols being copyrightable, I'm pretty sure they can be. They are 
> just formats after all.  Formats like DVD and GIF (or was it jpeg?) are 
> legendary for their IP issues.

It's all three, but their "legend" (that's a generous term; I would 
prefer infamous) is based on patents.

Matt Flaschen