[Tinyos-alliance] Feedback on IP policies

[Nachman, Lama]

Hi guys,

I got some feedback from the Intel lawyers regarding IP polices, here is
a summary.  Sorry for the delay, I was out of town the last week.

 

Intel prefers to participate in organizations that are under "RAND"
terms, i.e. by signing up as a participant in this organization, we
agree to make licenses available on Reasonable And Non Discriminatory
terms to any patents that are infringed by implementing the
specification or adopting the standard.  This approach is consistent
with the OCR model.  Intel on the other hand, has problems signing up to
RF (Royalty-Free) SIGs (e.g Zigbee).  The main driver behind these
recommendations is to avoid diluting the value of our IP portfolio.

 

Here are the specifics on the presentation:

1.	It is great that we are not suggesting that people need to
disclose all IP.  This is a non-starter as I commented back in the
meeting.
2.	It is not clear what the open / no cost IP is all about, again
the issue here is that we can not go with a Royalty free approach.  So,
if we can move towards a RAND model, this would be much easier.
3.	On open source license, BSD or Apache are preferable, we clearly
have issues with GPL.  Between BSD or Apache, Apache is preferable but
we can go with either.

 

Let me know if you have questions/concerns.

 

Thanks,

 

Lama

 

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