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  2. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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    The Version 2 of the GNU General Public License [14] of 1991 also says that patents convert free software to proprietary software: "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program ...

  3. Software patent - Wikipedia

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    The patent was granted on August 17, 1966, and seems to be one of the first software patents, establishing the principle that the computer program itself was unpatentable and therefore covered by copyright law, while the computer program embedded in hardware was potentially patentable. [ 3 ]

  4. Software patents under the European Patent Convention

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    The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which subject matter in these fields is patentable under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of October 5, 1973. The subject also includes the question of whether European patents granted ...

  5. Patent - Wikipedia

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    A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. [1] In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone ...

  6. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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    The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free ...

  7. MIT License - Wikipedia

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    Linking from code with a different licence. Yes. The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [6] in the late 1980s. [7] As a permissive license, it puts very few restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. [8][9]

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