Fedora sours on Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license
, Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, drafter of the original Open Source Definition , and presently CEO of software-defined radio firm Algoram, said that there's a lot of background to this issue.
"We want standards to be more accommodating of open source, rather than being instruments for companies to block us, and that means that they have to stop being fertile fields for patent farming," said Perens."Qualcomm would say they need the patent income to fund their research so that they can bring us things like 5G mobile.
"I would have included explicit patent language in the OSD if I wrote it today," said Perens."We've learned quite a lot. The OSD has stood up incredibly well, though, so I am not complaining." Kuhn – who emphasized that he speaking from a policy perspective and is not offering legal advice – said that the implicit, and sometimes even explicit, patent license in copyleft licenses like the GPLv2 are very strong.
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