Other very capable analysts have argued that MIT does grant patent rights, either express or implied. They've also argued that other legal rules, especially pat

Other very capable analysts have argued that MIT does grant patent rights, either express or implied. They've also argued that other legal rules, especially patent "exhaustion", remove the risk. I'm with you on this, though. It doesn't have to be broke. We can fix it. Blue Oak Council, a nonprofit I'm a part of, published a tier-ranked list of permissive licenses. All of those at the top handle patent explicitly: https://blueoakcouncil.org/list https://blueoakcouncil.org/list We also published a model permissive license, which comes with a very explicit, very broad patent grant: https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0 https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0