msgid "" "FSF's Position on W3 Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy - " "GNU Project - Free Software Foundation" msgstr "" #. type: Attribute 'content' of: <meta> msgid "" "GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation, Linux, patent, general, public, license, " "gpl, general public license, policy, freedom, software, Eben, Moglen, Eben " "Moglen" msgstr "" #. type: Attribute 'content' of: <meta> msgid "" "The W3C RF patent policy seems on its surface to be helpful to Free " "Software, but in fact it is not. FSF encourages the public to say so in " "response to the last call." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h2> msgid "FSF's Position on W3 Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "<i>Rewritten 1 June 2003</i>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h3> msgid "Our Position" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The Free Software Foundation, represented by Professor Moglen of Columbia " "University Law School, has participated in the W3 Consortium Patent Policy " "Working Group from November 2001 through the present. The current W3C " "patent policy, which in most cases requires “royalty-free” or " "“RF” patent licenses, is a significant step in the direction of " "protecting the World Wide Web from patent-encumbered standards. But it " "falls short because a loophole allows conditions on these patent licenses " "that would prohibit free software implementations of the standards." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The problem comes from the “field of use” restrictions that " "patent holders are allowed to put in their royalty-free patent licenses. " "Such restrictions say that you are allowed to practice the patented idea, " "but only for implementing the standard precisely as specified—not in " "any other way. Thus, if you change the code to depart from the spec even " "slightly, the patent license no longer protects you from against being sued " "for infringing the patent." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The W3C has policies to reject some kinds of “field of use” " "restrictions. For instance, it won't allow a patent license to be limited " "to a certain kind of software or a certain kind of platform. (We were " "informed of this in 2012.) However, that still allows other kinds of " "restrictions that can cause a problem." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "One requirement for Free Software is that users have the freedom to modify " "and redistribute it. But we can hardly consider that users have freedom to " "publish modified versions of the program if, for a part of the program's " "behavior, modification is prohibited. Thus, these “field of " "use” restrictions would prevent implementation of W3C standards as <a " "href=\"/philosophy/free-sw.html\"> Free Software</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "“Field of use” restrictions are also legally incompatible with " "section 7 of the <a href=\"/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html\">GNU General " "Public License (version 2)</a>, since it does not allow the user's freedom " "to modify to be shrunk to zero in this way." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Many other Free Software licenses have no provisions equivalent to the GPL's " "Section 7, but you can't solve the problem merely by using one of those " "licenses. Section 7 is intended to prevent the imposition of side " "restrictions (for instance, by patent licenses) which would deny the " "freedoms that the GPL itself gives you. If the software license does " "nothing to prevent this, you can find yourself in a situation where the " "program's license appears to give you freedom, but this freedom has been " "taken away by restrictions not stated there." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Freedom to modify software can always be limited by third-party patents in " "ways that the software copyright license doesn't disclose. This is why " "software patents are <a href=\"https://ffii.org/\">so dangerous to software " "freedom</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The FSF plans to continue to participate in the implementation process. We " "will try to convince patent-holders not to impose “field of use” " "restrictions, and we encourage all those who care about the right of Free " "Software developers to implement all future web standards to do the same." msgstr "" #. 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FSF encourages the public to say so in " "response to the last call." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h2> msgid "FSF's Position on W3 Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "<i>Rewritten 1 June 2003</i>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h3> msgid "Our Position" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The Free Software Foundation, represented by Professor Moglen of Columbia " "University Law School, has participated in the W3 Consortium Patent Policy " "Working Group from November 2001 through the present. The current W3C " "patent policy, which in most cases requires “royalty-free” or " "“RF” patent licenses, is a significant step in the direction of " "protecting the World Wide Web from patent-encumbered standards. But it " "falls short because a loophole allows conditions on these patent licenses " "that would prohibit free software implementations of the standards." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The problem comes from the “field of use” restrictions that " "patent holders are allowed to put in their royalty-free patent licenses. " "Such restrictions say that you are allowed to practice the patented idea, " "but only for implementing the standard precisely as specified—not in " "any other way. Thus, if you change the code to depart from the spec even " "slightly, the patent license no longer protects you from against being sued " "for infringing the patent." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The W3C has policies to reject some kinds of “field of use” " "restrictions. For instance, it won't allow a patent license to be limited " "to a certain kind of software or a certain kind of platform. (We were " "informed of this in 2012.) However, that still allows other kinds of " "restrictions that can cause a problem." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "One requirement for Free Software is that users have the freedom to modify " "and redistribute it. But we can hardly consider that users have freedom to " "publish modified versions of the program if, for a part of the program's " "behavior, modification is prohibited. 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