[copyleft-next] covered by patent grant
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Thu Aug 7 08:59:17 UTC 2014
On 07/08/14 03:23, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Part of http://faif.us/cast/2014/aug/05/0x4B/ with Fontana and VanL
> concerned a desire for patent grant covering more than just
> contributor's contributions/in combination with work, or whole work at
> time of contributor's contributions (as I [mis]understand them, Apache2
> and EPL do former, MPL2 and GPL3 latter).
MPL does the former - see section 2.3 c) in MPL 2 and 2.2 b) in MPL 1.1.
> I was kind of hoping that I'd discover recent copyleft-next commits
> adding patent coverage beyond single work, but alas. Any in the
> pipeline? What are the possible scopes of coverage beyond single work?
Coverage beyond a single work is presumably a patent pool?
Gerv
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