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Patenting by itself is no harm. Many open-source licenses grant an explicit or implicit patent license to the source code. So, open-source + patented is certain
by shared4you 13y ago
Patenting by itself is no harm. Many open-source licenses grant an explicit or implicit patent license to the source code. So, open-source + patented is certainly possible.
A recent example is the case where Google bought patent license from MPEG-LA for VP8 codec. And then Google sublicensed it, giving a royalty-free patent license for every user of VP8 codec, along with the source code.