OASIS Patent Policy Sparks Boycott
Paul Festa,
ZD Net,
Feb 22, 2005
This was pretty inevitable. "A who's who of the open-source and free-software movements on Tuesday took aim at a leading Web services standards group, escalating pressure for mandatory royalty-free licensing policies with calls for a boycott of its specifications." OASIS does not require that submission be patent-free, which means that companies that use OASIS specifications could at any time be hit with a lawsuit over a previously undisclosed patent. An OASIS representative denies that this is the case, but if you read the policy it's pretty clear that royalties can attach to the specifications and that the policy explicitly allows this. It's a pretty foolish company that used an OASIS specification, in my mind.
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