Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community. In response, various mechanisms have been tried to defuse the perceived problem...

programs and the Patent Cooperation Treaty Software patents under national laws: Software patents under United States patent law Software patents under United...

freedom over a piece of software, such as software patents and digital rights management (more specifically, tivoization). Free software can be a for-profit...

in defense of software patents or defense of the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. Through public disclosure, patents encourage the open...

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement...

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These actions...

modify, and share copies of software. Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed free software. Although...

of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents...

granting the recipient the rights to modify and redistribute the software. Software patents, like other types of patents, are theoretically supposed to give an...