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Bad faith is giving someone else seemingly open code that does something you hold a patent to and then enforcing the patent agsinst the recipient. The explicit
by hsivonen 10y ago
Bad faith is giving someone else seemingly open code that does something you hold a patent to and then enforcing the patent agsinst the recipient.
The explicit patent language in Apache License 2.0 is a good thing.
- snovv_crash 10y agoSo what if you hold a patent on an extended version of the algorithm, but release a limited version for free? If someone extends the limited version to include the patented work, does the virality of the licence, and it being a derivative of your work, mean that you have no legal recourse? Personally I'm against software patents, but as long as they're legal this seems like a backdoor reason you should never release code under Apache if you have patents in a related field.