[consulting] Patenting Drupal solutions

[Larry Garfield]

WRONG.

GPLv3 has a patent protection clause.  GPLv2 does not.  The relevant text from section 11 of GPLv3 is:

"Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."

See the rest of section 11 for more information.  That section is NOT present in GPLv2.

--Larry Garfield

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:22:33 -0800, "mark burdett" <mfburdett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Brett Evanson
>> brettev at gmail.com
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