I really know nothing about this. However after a bit of searching I did find the concept of "Patentleft" which seems to be an open source license for patents. Here is the Wikipedia page which is unfortunately brief.

I really know nothing about this. However after a bit of searching I did find the concept of "Patentleft" which seems to be an open source license for patents. Here is the Wikipedia page which is unfortunately brief. I also found the Open Invention Network which seems to be targeting patents related to Linux specifically. Lastly, this paper seems particularly relevant but is too long to summarize here.