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Code published for inspection needs a specialized license where it disallows any sublicensing or redistribution to close patent exhaustion. Albeit the interesti
by AstralStorm 8y ago
Code published for inspection needs a specialized license where it disallows any sublicensing or redistribution to close patent exhaustion. Albeit the interesting part is that it could be contrived as a business relationship still in some cases, causing patent exhaustion for the specific bodies allowed to inspect it. That would be for the court to decide though.
Allowing redistribution or sublicense right pretty clearly invokes software patent exhaustion.