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Not exactly get licenses, but the licensing requirement is voided for code distributed in such a way. That is, suppose Startup Inc. published code related to s
by AstralStorm 8y ago
Not exactly get licenses, but the licensing requirement is voided for code distributed in such a way.
That is, suppose Startup Inc. published code related to software patent on GitHub owned by GitHub Inc., to which it has granted license. This means anyone who downloads the code from there, no matter the license, has no licensing requirement (not the same as grant or getting a license).
If the code is published under a license that does not specifically exclude a patent grant, it is also patent exhausted. (Of course, if the license prohibits redistribution, GitHub cannot host it for the public.)
- gumby 8y agoThis would only apply to MS patents used by github right? That is, if MS had a patent on, say, making a bird whistle, just uploading a program to GitHub wouldn't give you a license to it. While if MS had a patent on, say, putting line numbers when displaying source code, anybody who uploaded a program to GH that did so would be able to use the technique in the patent?