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Being free in the copyright sense does not affect your patent status as far I understand (unless there is a specific patent grant in the license)
by shadowfox 16y ago
Being free in the copyright sense does not affect your patent status as far I understand (unless there is a specific patent grant in the license)
- gojomo 16y agoEven without an explicit grant, distributing a product includes an implied license to use related patents. So even under an open source license with no specific patent clause, a company would have a hard time releasing something open source, then suing users for patent violations for using that same something. (They might still be able to sue for violating those same patents in other ways.)