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Re: Patent non-proliferation and disarmament

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Patent non-proliferation and disarmament
• From: Claude Seyrat <claude.seyrat@e...>
• Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 17:09:54 +0200
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Expway
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• Reply-to: claude.seyrat@e...

Rich Salz wrote:
> 
> > Finally, open source shall not be opposed to RAND. For instance,
> > in MPEG, reference softwares are open source. It is even mandatory
> > to provide an open source software otherwise the technology can't be
> > introduced within the standard.
> 
> That's a free reference implementation.  It is not 'open source' in the
> true sense of the definition.  See
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html for the definition.
> In paticular, note the lack of licensing fees for use.

You are right I didn't have the same understanding. Anyway you have
the source code and the right to use it for your products. 

Regards,
Claude.
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