[cabfpub] question about patent-free guidelines

Ryan Sleevi sleevi at google.com
Fri Nov 4 19:17:45 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Gervase Markham via Public <
public at cabforum.org> wrote:

> On 03/11/16 18:20, Dimitris Zacharopoulos wrote:
> >  1. whether it is dictated in the bylaws or the IPR policy that the CA/B
> >     Forum must produce patent-free guidelines (otherwise it is probably
> >     allowed to include some patented solutions, among others with
> >     royalty-free license)
>
> I've not heard anyone arguing that this is a MUST.
>

Without wanting to misrepresent her, I believe this was expressed by
Virginia during both the F2F and the subsequent call. However, this may
simply have been a misunderstanding of position.
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