- From: Jason Antony <s1118355@student.gu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:35:09 +1000
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
From the terms of the RF license: (f) Royalty-Free License > > A "Royalty-Free License" also called "RF License" shall have the same > characteristics as a RAND License, except that a Royalty-Free License: <snip /> > 3. shall not be considered accepted by an implementer who > manifests an intent not to accept the terms of the > Royalty-Free License as offered by the licensor. So does this mean that %licensor% may offer patents for implementation, but on the condition that it cannot be implemented on certain platforms, say GNU/Linux or OpenBSD? Apparently, even the RF license is not equivalent to their current work. W3C, this is another clause that has the potential to limit deployment of free/open source software. Kindly consider this in your next draft. Regards Jason ============ "But now the holy dollar rules everybody's life Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies" - "Revolution Calling", Queensr˙che [1988]
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