alt Hacker News> these standards explicitly prohibited their use in implementing any open source implementation of the standards
Is that legally enforceable? IANAL, but that feels dubious to me. Feels like there should be a way around that.
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NoahZuniga • yesterday at 10:37 PM
probably enforceable via patents.
If you make a thing and copyright it, you get to dictate terms. But the legal alternative would be a clean room implementation. The implementation team never saw the standard, so it's not being used.