OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
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OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
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Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#2From the website:
The draft versions of the license currently published are practically unreadable. An updated and vastly simplified draft will be published within the next couple weeks.
And at the bottom: Last Modified on April 27 2007 08:01:26 UTC
Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#3From the website: The draft versions of the license currently published are practically unreadable. An updated and vastly simplified draft will be published within the next couple weeks. And at the bottom: Last Modified on April 27 2007 08:01:26 UTC
I just sent him an email alerting him to this thread and suggesting that with all the talk now about software patents, this would be a ripe opportunity to get other people on board to jumpstart his stalled 2007 idea.
Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#4It seems that something like this might run foul of compulsory licensing.
Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#5It seems that something like this might run foul of compulsory licensing.
What jurisdictions have compulsory licensing of software? To my knowledge, in the US that sort of thing is limited mainly to audio recordings.
Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#6From the website: The draft versions of the license currently published are practically unreadable. An updated and vastly simplified draft will be published within the next couple weeks. And at the bottom: Last Modified on April 27 2007 08:01:26 UTC
It's even worse than that - "The Problem in a Nutshell" hasn't been edited since 2000.
Re: OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
#7The Zombie License
1) This license safeguards the rights of the public, and as such, any member of the public has standing to bring suit in its defense.
2) Use of any technologies covered by a zombie license implies agreement to the following: all other technologies currently patented by the user are subject to license under the conditions of this patent.
3) This license is irrevocable for the life of the patent on any covered technology except by full consent of all beneficiaries (ie, by unanimous public referendum).
Anyone who loses any patent lawsuit to a holder of these patents becomes a 'Zombie' patent holder. They were using zombie technology, so all of their technology now belongs to the zombies! Anyone can now sue to defend the zombie's patents, and if they win, they turn their victim into another zombie!
It converts the whole obnoxious system into a fun self-limiting game of tag.
(edit: I know, this probably wouldn't hold water, but think how much fun it'd be if it did.)