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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by William Brogden <wb...@bga.com> on 2001/03/31 17:42:50 UTC

SOAP licensing

I had been assuming that nothing in SOAP was subject to
patents or licensing requirement - in other words that
it was a true open standard. However, take a look at:

http://www.ebxml.org/news/pr_20010308.htm

In which both Microsoft and IBM talk about licensing

"Microsoft intellectual property rights"

"IBM may own patents or patent applications which apply
  to this SOAP 1.1 specification. If implementation of the
  SOAP 1.1 specification requires the use of IBM patents,
  IBM will grant, upon written request, a non-exclusive
  license under such patents on reasonable and
  non-discriminatory terms."

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