Royalty-Free for GPLed-softw? from Alex Rivero on 2003-09-01 (public-web-plugins@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Alex Rivero <arivero@unizar.es>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:53:11 +0200
To: public-web-plugins@w3.org
Message-Id: <200309011453.11023.arivero@unizar.es>

  

  Could it help if the patent holder issues a
GPL-compatible license? ie if the patent is autimatically
granted a irrevocable royalty free license to any software
issued under GPL licenses. 

 In this way companies could have three options: to fight, to
pay, or to release the source code.

Alejandro

Received on Monday, 1 September 2003 10:17:31 UTC