Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

So you're saying in practice copyleft and hence open source doesn't really work, you have to patent and then license for free to protect your users. How does this impact innovation based on the ideas you have patented?


We've talked about making a GPLv3 release to at least open up the patents we control to all copyleft software. But there are important details to work through, and like most FLOSS projects we have more things to do than people to do them, so it hasn't happened yet. If someone needed it to happen it should be a pretty easy conversation to have.

Keep in mind also, our goal is generally to stay out of court. See above about having too much to do.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: