Standards Organizations: Patent Licenses

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

  • Patent policy working group
  • Early RAND ("Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory") draft caused many concerns
  • Adopted Royalty-Free policy still creates uncertainties for Free Software ("field of use")

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

  • Section 10 of The Internet Standards Process (RFC2026) defines IP policy
  • Maintains page of notices

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