Re: gEDA-dev: Newbie developer guidelines.

[al davis <ad136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 26 April 2007 02:42, Steve Meier wrote:
> If you are interested from a research point of view about how
> well a particular router works then build it and damn the
> pattents. I believe that in the process you will come up with
> new inovations and that by publishing your work as open
> source you create well documented prior art. This well
> documented prior art could become a major risk to the pattent
> farms.

Do not use just any open source.  Use only GPL.  It may be best 
to stall and use GPL-3, or use the draft GPL-3 in the interim.

The BSD license is a gift to the patent holder.  It exposes you 
to significant legal risk.

GPL, especially version 3, gives you a strong position to 
negotiate if there is a legal threat.


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