From 54b80cca0d4b179dc2d50fc14e2caf9311388c79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Hickson Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 16:40:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add a file describing Google's commitments with regard to patents and this project (#8632) --- PATENTS | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 PATENTS diff --git a/PATENTS b/PATENTS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0df0589687 --- /dev/null +++ b/PATENTS @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, +no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this +section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, +import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents +of this implementation, where such license applies only to those +patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in the +future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this +implementation. This grant does not include claims that would be +infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this +implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute +or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation or any other +patent enforcement activity against any entity (including a +cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this +implementation constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, +or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted +to you under this License for this implementation shall terminate as +of the date such litigation is filed.