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Google’s New Open Source Patent Pledge: We Won’t Sue Unless Attacked First
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Google took a stand of sorts against patent-lawsuit theater Thursday with its new Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge
As explained by Google’s Duane Valz, under the OPN Pledge, Google promises “not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked.”
Now, Google isn’t making all of its patents available for others. Instead, its starting small with 10 patents focused on MapReduce, a programming model for handling large data sets. There are already open-sourced versions of MapReduce available — including Hadoop — that are widely used across the Internet. Google says that over time, it plans to extend the OPN Pledge to more Google patents. Read more…More about Google, Open Source, Software Patents, Patent Lawsuit Theater, and Tech
source: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/uIIA_zgFfaM/
2013-03-28 11:32:53
Source: http://someit.com/2013/03/28/googles-new-open-source-patent/
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