Progress in the VoiceXML Intellectual Property Licensing Debacle

by Jonathan Eisenzopf In January of 2002 the World Wide Web Consortium released a rule that requires Web standards to be issued royalty free (RF). Some VoiceXML contributors hold intellectual property related to the VoiceXML standard. Some of those companies have already issued royalty free licenses, while others have agreed to reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing terms, meaning any vendor that implemented the specification in a commercial application would have to...n

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