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Open source is a fire-hose of value... (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Additionally depending on where you are patent that you file may be entirely ignored on the other side of the globe.

Swiss patent office good enough?

Other options are to use some kind of license. Very often this is used when we are talking about code.

But you can't license ideas, right?

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you want to patent something globally you have to patent it in every country, and there are some things like software that aren't patentable in some countries.

A license just tells someone what they can and can not do with something, it doesn't protect an idea. For code it literally just protects the written code, someone could write a clean room clone, i.e. never looking at your code.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

No clue, not that deep into the subject.