On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:21:08AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > It brings up another sore point with me. I'm of the opinion that both > copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a > non-transferable basis. He could then sell rights to use it for a > set period of time, at the end of which it is still his. The
You can already license patents, it's done all the time. There's no need for the government to restrict the rights of patents holders to sell all their rights, if they choose to. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
