[consulting] Patenting Drupal solutions

mark burdett mfburdett at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 19:22:33 UTC 2008


my one sentence summary is that basically GPL requires the patent
owner to license the patent for everyone to use freely.
But yes, they need a lawyer.

--mark

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Brett Evanson <brettev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working with a client that has asked me this question: "Is
> anything we are doing patentable?".
>
> What sort of things are patentable within open source development?
> What sort of issues are there with specific licenses? Where do I even
> go to start here?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
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> Brett Evanson
> brettev at gmail.com
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