[Foundation-l] File format policy

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 23:40:10 UTC 2008


On 19/01/2008, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org> wrote:
> 4. Not itself subject to material patent-related restrictions on use
> that are incompatible with free software, nor only able to be authored
> or viewed by software so restricted.

Problematical because it fails to make clear that such any patents
that have had restrictions waved for the time being need to have had
their restrictions waved until the patent expires.

-- 
geni



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