[llvm-dev] RFC: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community

[Jonas Maebe via llvm-dev]

David Chisnall via llvm-dev wrote on Wed, 21 Oct 2015:

> I think that we have three possible cases:
>
> - Contributor A submits something that infringes a patent owned by A.
..

> - Contributor A submits something that infringes a patent owned by NPE B.
..

There's also the combination of these two: contributor A submits  
something that infringes a patent owned by A, later on goes bankrupt  
and their patents get acquired by NPE B (or their new management is  
headed by Darl McBride). I think in that case the patent license also  
could be valuable.


Jonas