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It's a shame there are so many legal costs and constraints to applying for patents; we badly need a patent equivalent to copyleft.
by lukifer 15y ago
It's a shame there are so many legal costs and constraints to applying for patents; we badly need a patent equivalent to copyleft.
- schiffern 15y agoWe do. It's called the GPLv3.
- lukifer 15y agoHave there ever been any court cases where patents have been invalidated or upheld based on any flavor of existing copyleft licenses? And is there any way to apply GPL to the kind of broad concepts which are successfully patented ("One Click Purchase", as opposed to "OnceClickFramework::BuyNowFunction")?