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Subject: Patents and contributions in Contributor License Agreement
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:50:26 +0200
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Hi,=20

I'm currently conduction a master thesis on Android Open Source Project, =
and as a law student I am studying the legal aspects of the project.=20
My question is how to interpret the Contributor License Agreement? It =
uses the same wording as the one provided by the Apache foundation and =
that is why I feel that this forum might be the right place to answer my =
questions.

Can a small bug fix imply a patent license?

How should you interpret =93necessarily infringed by your =
contribution(s)=94?

If you are contributing to a part of a functionality, for example =
changing a header or a parameter) will that contribution be interpreted =
as necessarily infringing any of my patents if I hold a patent or =
patents on the full functionality of that part of the software.

What is the difference between contributions and combinations of =
contributions?

I hope that my questions makes sense and are possible to answer.=20

Best regards
David
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David Gr=FCnbaum
M.Sc student Intellectual Property Law
School of Intellectual Capital Management
University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology

Phone: +46 (0)705 841 341
Mail: dv.grunbaum@gmail.com

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