[copyleft-next] copyleft-next patent commons?

Pamela Chestek pchestek at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 16:50:57 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 25/02/13 14:42, Pamela Chestek wrote:
>
> I think there are several things about this which take it away from the
> scenario the FTC envisages:
>
> All fair enough and I am not an antitrust lawyer, so both of us are
probably equally in the dark about how likely a possibility it is. It is
definitely new territory, but then you never know what will provoke the FTC
(or who is having the behind-the-scenes conversations with them).

What I think is intriguing about it is that it is almost an inchoate threat
-- it's not likely now, but as the copyleft-next license becomes more
popular the competitive threat becomes more real. So you've planted the
seed and there's not an "oops, never mind" opportunity later in time. It's
a time bomb.

Pam
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