Questions tagged [patents]
For questions about the usages and roles of patents within open projects. This can concern protection of projects/patents, and their implications in licensing, projects, and usages.
5 questions from the last 365 days
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Can the patent grant in BSD 2-Clause Plus Patent be simply added or removed?
Suppose I receive a copy of some software with the BSD 2-Clause Plus Patent license. Can I make some modifications to that software, then distribute my changed version of that software under the BSD ...
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Patent encumbrances on CRYSTALS-Kyber?
NIST claims that they “[have] entered into” an agreement with the holders of patents US9246675/EP2837128B1 and US9094189B2/EP2537284B1, to allow people to implement and operate the Kyber cryptosystem— ...
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Patent encumbrances on Falcon?
Does anyone have any hard evidence what exactly are the terms and conditions of the patent license that Dr. Whyte / OnBoard Security has pledged to provide to any prospective implementers of the ...
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Apache 2.0 and patent grant to the code not related to the contribution
Imagine, a company, contributes to a huge Apache 2.0 project. The company owns a patent. The project is huge, and there's a small fragment of its code which infringes on the patent. The company ...
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What is the best weak copyleft licence against patent trolling?
To avoid an XY question, the general requirements I have are:
The licence should not impose operational complexity for downstream users of a library (users should not be forced to think about linking)...
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