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Red Hat Offers a Model for Patent Licensing

Red Hat has spent the last couple of years dealing with a lawsuit from Firestar (later DataTern) concerning alleged patent infringement in their JBoss product. The details of the patent are not especially important at this point - what's pertinent is that Red Hat apparently paid the problem to go away, while preserving in the settlement (according to their own FAQ) broad freedom for the open source community. Now that they've released the actual settlement details, we can see how well they stack up.


Red Hat Discloses Terms of Recent Patent Settlement

Red Hat has taken the unusual step today of publicly disclosing the terms of a settlement with Firestar Software over allegations of patent violation. At the time of the settlement, all Red Hat would say was that it satisfies the most stringent patent provisions in open source licenses Today, they're saying a bit more.

 



Red Hat Settles Patent Violation Lawsuit

Red Hat issued a statement this morning that is has settled a patent litigation lawsuit with Firestar Software and DataTern, saying it protects Red Hat's current customers and sets a precedent for the open source community at large. Firestar initiated a lawsuit againt Red Hat in 2006 over its newly acquired JBoss technology, claiming patent violations relating to Hibernate 3, a high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Firestar claimed...