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CA supports IBM's open source patent pledge

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BANGALORE: Computer Associates International, Inc. today pledged open access to key innovations covered by 14 of its U.S. patents and counterparts of these patents issued in other countries for individuals and groups working on open source software.





CA also announced it has reached a long-term, patent cross license agreement with IBM, creating an exchange of license rights and releases between the companies.





In making its patent pledge to the open source community, CA is joining IBM in encouraging other companies to create an industry-wide "patent commons" in which patents are pledged royalty-free to further innovation in areas of broad interest to developers and users of information technology. IBM made a similar pledge earlier this year.





"Everyone benefits when innovation is fostered through collaboration and the open exchange of technological advances," said Jim Stallings, IBM's vice-president of Intellectual Property and Standards. "We are gratified to see CA respond so enthusiastically to IBM's call for owners of intellectual property to accelerate interoperability and the adoption of open source software."





The patents covered by CA's non-assertion pledge address a wide variety of technology challenges and can be used in a full range of open source projects.









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