berneout / big-time-license

a public LICENSE that makes software free for noncommercial and small-business use, with a guarantee that fair commercial terms will be available for everyone else
https://bigtimelicense.com
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FRAND: Explicitly prohibit exploitation of adoption #22

Closed kemitchell closed 2 years ago

kemitchell commented 2 years ago

This PR tries to make the purpose of the reuse of the "FRAND" concept more explicit, by making clear that the licensor can't exploit a user's adoption of their software when they were covered for free use.

Standards lure would-be implementers into practicing essential patents. Big Time could lures small-business users into adopting software for free before the eventually grow larger and need to buy licenses.