From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T23:27:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Open Source Licenses against Software Patents

Quoteing pit@capitain.de, on Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:25:19PM +0900:
> Applying for a new RubyForge project is harder than I thought :-), cause I 
> have to choose a suitable license. I'd like to have a very liberal and 
> easily understandable one like the MIT license [1] for example. But I also 
> want to explicitly exclude companies holding software patents from this 
> license. Do you know of any licenses with similar goals?

That might be most of the companies in the world with more than a dozen
people!

The GPL has some clauses effecting patents - if I recall correctly, if
you take GPL code and use it in an app, you have to licence all the
patents in that app to anybody who wants them. Don't know if thats
exactly what you want, though.

Cheers,
Sam