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At OSCON
2016 in Austin, a panel of invited experts debated the
always-thorny subject of how open-source software projects deal with
patents. The panel was packed, featuring representatives from the
free-software world, commerce, and the legal community, so there was
scarcely enough time to move through the prepared topics in the time
allotted, much less to take questions from the audience. But the
discussion was able to highlight a number of current issues, including
patent abolition, implicit patent licenses, and where the
open-source community should focus its efforts to improve matters.