- From: Charles <charles@pilger.inf.br>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:12:11 -0000
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Hi! I am a developer, than sometimes produce programs using the GPL license, sometimes using one BSD-like license. Reading the terms of "field of use" restrictions, and the positions of the Free Software Foundation [ http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html ], I believe than this restrictions are very dangerous, not only to GPL programs, but to the freedom of developing web solutions in other open-source licences too. Not freedom standards are very dangerous, because the access to implement solutions are closed, and this stop the progress of this same standards. So, please reconsider the "field of use" restrictions. Maybe to the people in the business side is a good thing, but to the freedom of the web standards this can be a very complicated limitation in the future. []'s Charles Pilger ________________________________________________ This mail was sent by Mail 2.5
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