patent licence

Free software projects cannot agree to patent licences that include any kind of per-copy fee.

The allowance is given either as a trading expense or as a deduction from patent licence income (see s528).

A patent licence that is royalty-free, or provides a one-time worldwide payment is acceptable.

I just hope that if I use Apple's proprietary technology, their bought and paid for patent licences will extend to me the app developer.

Bradley was unable to negotiate the LZW patent licence necessary for encoding the then-popular GIF format.

Is used by chipset and hardware manufacturers, and software and system integrators for full compliance with Microsoft patent licences and GPL.

Take for example a software package that is distributed at no cost and to which the developer wants to add support for a video format which requires a patent licence.

Daglish, after obtaining the necessary patent licence, built the first steam powered locomotive in Lancashire to the design of John Blenkinsop, a Leeds engineer.

At first, he was selling individual patent licences for £20 each, but later he lowered the fee to £4 and waived the payment for those who wished to use the process only as amateurs.

Patent licence requirements for JBIG1 implementations by IBM, Mitsubishi and AT&T prevented the codec to become widely implemented in open-source software.

Even when the mobile OS developer has signed a patent licence - as Apple has with at least one company currently pursuing patent lawsuits - it is not clear that it has any legal standing to defend developers.

In accordance with a patent licence, royalties are paid to the patent owner in exchange for the right to practise one or more of the four basic patent rights: to manufacture with, to use, to sell, or to advertise for sale of a patented technology.

Version 2 of the GNU General Public License does not allow software to be distributed if that software requires a patent licence that does not "permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you".