On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jari Arkko wrote: > > Do you have examples of licenses/IPR declarations that work better with > GPL and other forms of open source? Something for Mark and the rest > of us to use as a model, perhaps? A recent slap given by Apache to Sun <http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html> implies that the Java Community Process has very open requirements on patent licences granted via the Java Specification Participation Agreement. The ASF thought a lot about patent licensing to produce the Apache Licence 2.0 - most other patent-aware open source licences are sponsored by businesses rather than non-profit foundations. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ FORTIES CROMARTY FORTH: WEST OR SOUTHWEST 5 OR 6 DECREASING 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE, OCCASIONALLY ROUGH IN FORTIES. RAIN AT TIMES. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf