In a recent position paper, SPRIN-D, an innovation agency of the German government, proposed that universities license their intellectual property (IP) to university startups in return for virtual shares. This approach is suggested as a practice to work around universities who stall startup licensing deals due to unrealistic assumptions (e.g. lump-sum upfront payment). The problem being solved, however, is only at the end of a long chain of necessary changes, before the specifics of a licensing deal even become relevant.
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So far, nobody. Not the open source developers, who responded fast and professionally, and not the companies who handled the risk within a day or two.
Eventually, however, we will have to blame (or complain) about those companies who got cracked because they did not remove the vulnerability in time.
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