RE: Withdrawal of Approval and Second

["Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>]

> > Do you have examples of licenses/IPR declarations that work better with
> > GPL and other forms of open source? Something for Mark and the rest
> > of us to use as a model, perhaps?

and

> I am not speaking
> for any particular company, and certainly not for the one that pays me,
> but it's clear that no company in today's IT market and today's legal
> environment could make such a grant. Any RF license is going to come with
> conditions that protect the IPR owner in certain ways.

See http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx, for but one example. 

/Larry Rosen



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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:29:01 -0700
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> > Do you have examples of licenses/IPR declarations that work better with
> > GPL and other forms of open source? Something for Mark and the rest
> > of us to use as a model, perhaps?

and

> I am not speaking
> for any particular company, and certainly not for the one that pays me,
> but it's clear that no company in today's IT market and today's legal
> environment could make such a grant. Any RF license is going to come with
> conditions that protect the IPR owner in certain ways.

See http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx, for but one example. 

/Larry Rosen



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