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From: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch at apple.com>
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Subject: [MPTCP] Patent-question
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:38:37 -0700
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Hello,

regarding the patent-question. From https://lwn.net/Articles/783673/, I see:

"
   It looks like a fairly typical battle between a protocol pushed by the
   largest Internet service providers, and one with a rather more grass-roo=
ts
   origin. There is, however, another important thing to know about L4S:
   Alcatel-Lucent claims a patent on the dual-queue algorithm. The company =
has
   generously offered to make that patent available under "fair, reasonable,
   and non-discriminatory" terms; such terms are, of course, highly
   discriminatory against free software implementations. They make it
   impossible to merge the affected code into a GPL-licensed kernel.
"

Is that true?


Christoph




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