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Royalty-free options reach OASIS
News An influential Web services standards group revised its patent policy to accommodate but not require royalty-free licences, signalling incremental gains for open source developers. But at least one OASIS member who called himself an advocate of...
[February 11, 2005, 9:55]
Web services finds royalty-free Oasis
News Those companies intend to submit BPEL to the Oasis technical committee under royalty-free terms, which means that other companies can create products from the resulting standard without having to pay a fee to the original authors of the...
[April 30, 2003, 11:14]
W3C bows to royalty-free pressure
News It now states that all members who participate in a proposed standard must agree to license any relevant patents on a royalty-free basis. The real tension there was that the vast majority of the working group supports the proposition that what's...
[November 15, 2002, 9:24]
Apple denies royalty-free licence to widget patent
News But a member can choose to exclude "essential claims" on which they have a patent from that royalty-free licensing requirement so long as they do so within 150 days of the publication of the first working draft for that standard.
[April 8, 2009, 9:25]
IBM ebXML patent plan royalty-free
News An IBM executive last fall said the company has historically worked in both royalty-free and RAND environments, and chooses to use one or the other on a case-by-case basis, depending on the technologies.
[April 19, 2002, 14:49]
UWB standards rivals offer royalty-free technology
News The battle between technology heavyweights over whose proposal will become a new short-range, high-speed wireless standard has heated up again, with one side now promising to offer its technology royalty-free to other companies.
[October 29, 2003, 16:05]
Ogg Vorbis plays with hardware support
News Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. Software and hardware companies who make MP3 player and encoder software, by contrast, must pay...
[September 4, 2002, 13:31]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
News A firm involved in the market testing of Microsoft's server interoperability licence on Wednesday criticised the royalty-free concessions the software giant made in its final offer to the EU. But information on how to manage file privileges is not...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
W3C rejigs image format
News A key Internet standards group issued this week a revised recommendation for a royalty-free image format. Once LZW patent-owner Unisys announced its intention to seek royalties for the use of GIF graphics in software applications, free-software...
[November 12, 2003, 12:20]
OASIS patent policy lambasted
News A who's who of the open source and free-software movements on Tuesday took aim at the OASIS group, escalating pressure for mandatory royalty-free licensing policies with calls for a boycott of its specifications.
[February 23, 2005, 9:45]
Winamp glitch may benefit open source
News A recently disclosed vulnerability in an old version of the popular Winamp media player could provide a boost for the royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format known as Ogg Vorbis. Having Ogg Vorbis work with the new version of Winamp out of the...
[May 2, 2002, 11:58]
escore #01 trial
Downloads Sound Vision Library is proud to offer a free trial version of escore.escore provides a wide range of loops, logos and tags specifically created for Internet and multimedia application developers.escore #01 trial is offered with a freeware royalty...
[March 17, 2006, 6:00]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The World Wide Web Consortium is opening the possibility of pushing back against an Apple patent on software updates that Apple had refused to license royalty-free for use in a proposed web standard. Apple in March said it was not willing to...
[June 18, 2009, 8:54]
Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy
News By adopting this Patent Policy, with its commitment to royalty-free standards for the future, we are laying the foundation for another decade of technical innovation, economic growth and social advancement.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
News In this final offering, filed last week, Microsoft agreed to make some server interoperability information available royalty-free, but declined the EC's request to allow free software developers to publish the source code of products that have...
[June 8, 2005, 15:15]
SmartSound Sonicfire Pro
Downloads Royalty-free music tracks are included and the software allows you to audition, purchase, and immediately download any track in the vast SmartSound library of royalty-free Music and Sound Effects. Sonicfire Pro is an award-winning patented software...
[December 24, 2005, 2:46]
Patent amnesty for Java phone updates
News The move will give developers royalty-free access to patents necessary to write software based on the OSGI Service Platform Release 4, according to the companies involved. Until now, only members of the OSGI Alliance standards body had royalty-free...
[July 26, 2006, 10:25]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
News Earlier this year IBM said it will allow open source developers the royalty-free use of 500 of its 10,000 US patents, with more patents to be made available under the scheme in the future. Any software covered by the Open Source Initiative's Open...
[April 13, 2005, 15:05]
Mobile-software developer UIQ files for bankruptcy
News The UIQ platform is being integrated, along with Series 60, into the Symbian Foundation's royalty-free, open-source platform, and Motorola announced in November that it would drop UIQ in order to focus on rival systems, including Android, Windows...
[January 5, 2009, 11:57]
3D graphics world shaken by patent claims
News While it is as yet unclear how Microsoft intends to pursue its claims, the matter underscores the increasing difficulty of creating high-tech industry standards of all kinds, particularly those that are intended to be widely available and royalty...
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
