[License-review] CC0 incompliant with OSD on patents

[Thorsten Glaser]

Russ Nelson dixit:

>(I think we're ALL agreed that patents
>which are not freely licensed -- at least for open source software --
>are not compatible with open source software, right?)

No.

If I write something (and I don’t hold any patents), sitting in
Europe, and give that to you in America under an Open Source
licence, the existence of a patent on this in, say, Korea should
not make this piece of software not open source.

Please keep OSI approval of (Open Source software) licences
and patent policies separate from each other. The patent
situation is a whole different boat and deliberately vague
(see Debian’s new patent policy). If I can only publish
software where I _know_ there are no patents on, I’d rather
ignore the OSI… and my guess is most would.

bye,
//mirabilos
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