[License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents

[Danese Cooper]

Developer needs to pay a lawyer, I'm thinking...


> On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:52 PM, jonathon <jonathon.blake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> Need some help.
> 
> Software was privately created.
> Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
> If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.
> 
> Issue:
> Developer is using systems, methods, and techniques that were described
> in the literature more than three decades ago (in some instances 400
> years ago), except instead of using pen and paper, they are using software.
> 
> As best as can be determined, there are no patent issues with any
> libraries that are used.
> 
> As best as can be determined, there are no copyright/license issues with
> any of the libraries that are used.
> 
> Developer is not going to be responsible for claims of patent
> infringement by users.
> 
> Developer is not going to cover any court costs incurred by users,
> because of patent related litigation, or threats of such litigation.
> 
> Developer is emphatically not going to pay for the right to utilize any
> patents within the software.
> 
> Content created by the developer years before the patents were applied
> for, might have been the source of any patents that were granted.
> 
> 
> Question:
> Should developer make any notation about possible patents that the
> software _might_ infringe upon?
> 
> This isn't a case of where the developer is unaware of possible patents.
> Nor is it a case of where the developer holds any patents.
> 
> 
> jonathon
> 
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