For Approval: Broad Institute Public License (BIPL)

[Steve Quinn]

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From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:18 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org; 'Karin Rivard'
Subject: RE: For Approval: Broad Institute Public License (BIPL)

Lawrence Rosen writes:
 > If MIT refuses to grant a patent license for its software, then there is
a  > possibility that MIT (or its faculty, researchers, graduate students,
staff,  > etc.) will later claim royalties for the patents embodied in that
software  > from the users of that open source software. Is it your
intention to allow  > that? How is this at heart different from the Rambus
licensing model?

Maybe Larry understands the solution, but I'm not sure I understand the
problem.  If MIT owns a patent, why is there any difficulty with granting a
license to it?  If a license for open source users is a problem, then sooner
or later you're going to get a pacifist who will object to military uses, or
a vegetarian who will object to meat-packing uses.  If you think you have
problems now, just try crossing a Quaker.

It seems to me that the problem is that MIT's patent licensing system is
broken, not that there is a problem with the MPL that needs fixing.

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