With the recently felt uprise of SVG hacking activity we wonder what the patent situation regarding SVG is.
Comments on SVG showed problems with this a year ago. E.g: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Oct/0555.ht...
W3C itself has a page for SVG 1.0, still documenting problems. The updated page for SVG tries to create the impression the problems are gone.
Is this really the case?
It would be good to find or write an analysis of the situation from the point of view of the Free Software movement.
http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.html
SVG 1.0 Patent Statements
This document has been superceeded by the generic SVG Disclosures page. It remains here for historical purposes and to provide more information on the licensing terms that companies provided for the SVG 1.0 Specification.
Summary
* There are three organisations who offered a RAND license for SVG 1.0 (Kodak, IBM , Quark)
* The other statement that was not completely royalty-free was from Apple
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Disclosures
As of today, the SVG Working Group participants and the W3C are not aware of any royalty-bearing patents that are essential to implement the deliverables of the SVG Working Group, which includes all versions of the SVG specification and the SVG Mobile Profiles.
Last updated: $Date: 2002/11/13 14:11:45 $