[License-discuss] comprehensiveness (or not) of the OSI-approved list

[Bruce Perens]

Larry, what about companies that separate their patent-holding entity from
their operational entity, the entity that touches Open Source, and the
entity that brings lawsuits? I do know for a fact that Qualcomm operates a
separate entity for their Open Source involvement.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:42 AM Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock wrote:
> > .  If a program has functionality covered by a patent owned by a
> completely unrelated 3rd party, the program's license doesn't give all the
> Patent rights a user needs.  At best, you could claim that the program's
> license gives all the Patent rights FROM THE IDENTIFIED CONTRIBUTORS that a
> user needs.
>
>
>
> Don't forget the important defensive termination provisions in some
> licenses. If the copyright license to an important open source program is
> terminated because of the filing by that third party of a patent lawsuit
> against that program, this may be a sufficient defense for protecting our
> software. Even third parties must be careful who they sue.
>
>
>
> /Larry
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