license with patent grants appropriate for specifications?

Bob Scheifler Bob.Scheifler at Sun.COM
Fri Jan 21 23:36:24 UTC 2005


> You can also distribute patented software under a conforming license.
> Only people in a free country will be able to use it, so it won't be
> Open Source.

Thanks. If possible, could you also answer the other question I posed:
OSD #1 and #3 refer only to the open source license itself, not to the
existence or non-existence of separate patent-only licenses. Are they
commonly understood to have broader scope, and if so, what scope?

- Bob



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