RE: A priori IPR choices

[Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

> GPL would not be a criterion I would consider reasonable. And in
> particular I would not accept the idea that the IETF or any other body
> be committed to whatever notions insert themselves into RMS in the
> future.

There are plenty of much less rabid open source licences which have
similar approaches to patents as the GPL: see the Apache licence version
2 or the Mozilla Public Licence version 1.1, both of which include
non-bureaucratic patent licensing and anti-litigation clauses.

Tony.
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