Z:gnu-www-ja-w3c-patent--64b780-The Free Software Foundation,/en

The Free Software Foundation, represented by Professor Moglen of Columbia University Law School, has participated in the W3 Consortium Patent Policy Working Group from November 2001 through the present. The current W3C patent policy, which in most cases requires &ldquo;royalty-free&rdquo; or &ldquo;RF&rdquo; patent licenses, is a significant step in the direction of protecting the World Wide Web from patent-encumbered standards. But it falls short because a loophole allows conditions on these patent licenses that would prohibit free software implementations of the standards.