[Foundation-l] New project proposal - patent-wiki, was: foundation-l Digest, Vol 10, Issue 23

[Christiaan Briggs]

Why don't you add it to [[Proposals for new projects]] so it can be 
discussed and developed there:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects

Christiaan

Reuven R. wrote:

> heyo! :)
>
>>> a general idea - what if there was a patent-wiki? to write down 
>>> softwere(mostly) patents which u want to keep availible to the 
>>> public - providing proof of their existance before any other 
>>> registration attempt? and serving as a lisintg of availible methods 
>>> and such...
>>>
>>> this could be an idea for the preservation(or something?) wiki which 
>>> suggested writting down how things work before the end of the 
>>> civilization as we know it.. ;p
>>
>> I like it. I wouldn't restrict just to software though. What sort of 
>> licence did you have in mind.
> I'm afraid I can't really anwser it as I don't have any legal 
> education, I could explain a general idea but I'm preety sure it's the 
> one you have in mind ^^*