Yes USG files patents all the time
> On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Totally agree. But can the USG file patents? I suppose research > organizations can (MITRE, maybe even NASA?) so it's not that academic; but > presumably any place where this public domain arises, it applies to patents > too. Would be nice to get that sorted. > > Brian > >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Chris DiBona wrote: >> In military contracting , patent grants are key to the point where I >> wouldn't consider a non patent granting license from, say, lockheed as being >> open source at all. >> On Aug 18, 2016 3:05 PM, "Tzeng, Nigel H." <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/18/16, 3:57 PM, "License-discuss on behalf of Lawrence Rosen" >> <[email protected] on behalf of >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >Nigel Tzeng wrote: >> >> The issue here is for code that is potentially quite substantial. I >> >>would think that would be a different scenario. >> > >> >If I include the works of Shakespeare in my software, it would of >> course >> >be substantial and yet still be public domain almost everywhere (?). >> >> If patents aren't a concern then okay. Copyright lasts longer than >> patents so for anything that is in the public domain because of age then >> no patents would still apply. >> >> There isn¹t a lot of code that has aged out. Only code written between >> before 1963 and didn¹t get a renewal. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
