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- From: blasum@muc.de (Holger Blasum)
- Subject: [Patents] W3C: Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:04:01 +0200
Hello All,
when browsing to the W3C page today (looking for the XLST spec), I ran into:
Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call draft (open for
public comments till 30 Sep) on top of the main page news.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/
For a layman, it seems to be quite balanced, but I am wondering what
"reasonable, non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing terms"
eventually mean for open-source software.
On the positive side, this may teach lot about handling interoperability
issues.
As with other WGs, since Aug 10, W3C has an archived public mailing list
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Aug/thread.html
(so far it has only attracted spam).
Subscription: <www-patentpolicy-comment-request@w3.org>
(This would also be a good topic for an industry summit such as Bruce
Perens once called for http://www.perens.com/Articles/Patents.html, or
has that already taken place?)
--
Holger Blasum <holger@blasum.net>
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- [Patents] W3C: Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call, Holger Blasum
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