Just a quick reply about Kuali OLE and Kuali projects in general. All
Kuali Foundation apps are released under the Educational Community License
v 2.0 - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php.

Kuali OLE and many other Kuali apps use a firm called Black Duck to make
sure we are current with all open source licensing that occurs within our
codebase - they perform professinoal services audits of the code -
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/services/professional-services

One of the reasons that OLE joined in with the Kuali Foundation is because
of the intellectual property support that is available to Kuali projects
in terms of making sure that all of our code remains open under the ECLv2
and that others can not just take the code and try to assert IP rights
over it.

I hope this answers your questions about Kuali OLE.

Thanks

Robert
 
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Robert H. McDonald
Associate Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries
Associate Director, Data to Insight Center-Pervasive Technology Institute
Executive Director, Kuali OLE
Indiana University
Herman B Wells Library 234
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-856-4834
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On 12/5/11 8:17 AM, "Emily Lynema" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>A colleague approached me this morning with an interesting question that I
>realized I didn't know how to answer. How are open source projects in the
>library community dancing around technologies that may have been patented
>by vendors? We were particularly wondering about this in light of open
>source ILS projects, like Kuali OLE, Koha, and Evergreen. I know OLE is
>still in the early stages, but did the folks who created Koha and
>Evergreen
>ever run into any problems in this area? Have library vendors historically
>pursued patents for their systems and solutions?