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>>gkober+(OP)
There is no legal covenant here. I imagine Tesla’s definition of “good faith” is “we evaluate on a case by case basis”.

Which amounts to “if we like you” and “we reserve the right”. If they wanted these patents to be open source, they would license them explicitly.

>>mwsher+W2
They would be on the receiving end of a PR shitstorm if they tried to enforce their patents after publishing this.

>>kevinc+r3
> They would be on the receiving end of a PR shitstorm if they tried to enforce their patents after publishing this.

I can see a situation where a competitor / patent troll sues them, and they use the patents defensively. If they're obviously on the right side, their PR department won't have such a hard time.