[$] Patents and the open-source community

At OSCON2016 in Austin, a panel of invited experts debated thealways-thorny subject of how open-source software projects deal withpatents. The panel was packed, featuring representatives from thefree-software world, commerce, and the legal community, so there wasscarcely enough time to move through the prepared topics in the timeallotted, much less to take questions from the audience. But thediscussion was able to highlight a number of current issues, includingpatent abolition, implicit patent licenses, and where theopen-source community should focus its efforts to improve matters.