Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns
Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Wed, 11 April 2007 08:27 UTC
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Subject: Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns
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On 2007-04-11 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> writes: > >> Simon, >> >> Can you identify any instance of a non-profit GPL implementor or >> distributor being sued for not having "sent a postcard" for the >> style of RF license you are objecting to? > > Brian, two responses: > > 1) You seem to assume that GPL implementers would violate the patent > license by redistributing their code without sending a postcard. > In order words, your question assumes and implies bad-faith amongst > GPL implementers. Not specifically. My question is a practical one. People who receive open source code, tweak it, and install it may often be completely unaware that they should be asking for a license. Do we have any practical evidence that IPR owners actually care? > What typically happens in practice, among good-faith practitioners, > is that there won't be any GPL (or Apache, or Mozilla, or ...) > implementation of the patented technology at all, because the > necessary rights cannot be acquired. Doesn't that sound like a bug in the OSS licenses to you, assuming the desired result is to make the Internet work better? > > 1) I don't believe this is a 'send a postcard' license. If you read > Mark's patent license, it starts with: > > "Upon request, RedPhone Security will ... > > I interpret this to mean that unless RedPhone responds to your > requests, you have not received any rights. Is this incorrect? I'm assuming you will get a postcard in reply, certainly. > > There are examples where companies won't respond to requests for these > type of RF patent licenses. The phrase you quote doesn't allow for that. > A recent example that came to mind was > related to the BOCU patent by IBM: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.text.unicode.devel/23256 I won't respond here on that specific issue. > > A different problem is if the patent is owned by a small company, and > the company goes away. Normally the patent will fall into the hands of whoever strips the assets. That's why a carefully constructed perpetual RF license is needed, in any case. > > Still, I'm not sure even a "send-a-postcard" patent license would be > compatible with free software licenses. Sending the postcard appear > to be an additional requirement, something that some free software > licenses explicitly forbid. I think that is a bug in the OSS licenses. Whatever you or I may think of patent law, it isn't going away, and the OSS licenses need to deal with it realistically IMHO. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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- Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: … Brian E Carpenter
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