Software patents and free software: Difference between revisions

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|url=http://www.effi.org/patentit/patents_torvalds_cox.html

|title=Open Letter on Software Patents from Linux developers

}}</ref> and companies such as [[Red Hat]],<ref>[http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html redhat.com | Red Hat Patent Policy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and [[MySQL]],<ref>[http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/patents.html MySQL AB :: MySQL Public Patent Policy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and community groups such as [[Free Software Foundation Europe|FSFE]],<ref>[http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/ FSFE - Software Patents in Europe<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[Irish Free Software Organisation|IFSO]],<ref>[http://ifso.ie/projects/swpats.html Software Patentability & EU Directive COD/2002/0047<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> all believe that patents cause problems for free software.ply stor

==Patent licensing==