- From: Braddock Gaskill <braddock@braddock.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:04:21 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 14:06:30 UTC
Just as a concerned developer of the Open Source community, I would say that if you folks enact a patent policy that passes standards that require patent royalties to implement, you can pretty well forget about any Open Source community support. Not just because we will be bitter (which we will) and won't give your standards or your organization in general as much credence as we have in the past, but simply because Open Source projects like Apache and Linux will be UNABLE to implement patent-based standards. The GNU GPL prevents software with additional patent limitations on distribution, and compliance with the spirit of the BSD-derived licenses would require no royalties for commercial or non-profit uses of the software. Braddock Gaskill -- "We are Tajiks and we do not like the Pashtun. They are cruel." -Village leader in central Afghanistan
Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 14:06:30 UTC