Alceste:
a. you release your work under the GNU GPL (if you want to use our patent without paying fees); b. you pay a royalty (if you want to use another license and/or release a proprietary program)."
I think that it could be quite a realistic hypothesis --- and it could be the first software patent
Never heard of the FSMLabs patent?
that could be used to support
Free Software :-)
I don't call this "support", sorry. Sure other people praise the approach, but not everybody does. Note the note below, though.