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I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't BSD/MIT has an implicit patent grant? It would be absurd for a company to argue that they put their software out there for everyon

I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't BSD/MIT has an implicit patent grant? It would be absurd for a company to argue that they put their software out there for everyone to freely use, but "JUST KIDDING -- we secretly didn't give you rights to use the related patents that we didn't tell you about." It would be interesting to see the backlash if a company ever tries that one. They would probably lose a lot of their own developers as well.

valarauca1 9y ago
It doesn’t. This is BSD/MIT is consider a _bad_ license if you want to convert patent concerns.
- JoshMnem 9y ago
  It says: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: [include this notice, no liability]" Without restrictions or limitations. As far as I know, it has not been tested in court, but I think it would be suicide among the developer community for a company to try to do that. Everyone should have patent concerns either way. The ideal solution would be to abolish software patents.