From: "Anton D. Kachalov" <mouse@mayc.ru>
To: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF & patents
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:01:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE5C7C0.3060305@mayc.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73a01bf20910260850v215385e6q2cbbf9133acd5e1e@mail.gmail.com>
Rayson Ho wrote:
> Just a heads up...
>
> Apple (NeXT) patented the technologies behind universal binaries:
>
> "Method and apparatus for architecture independent executable files"
>
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MQQnAAAAEBAJ
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=b3wiAAAAEBAJ
>
> (Patent 5432937, 5604905)
>
Hmm... looks like patents talks about objects that stored in one file
with arch-independent header.
My implementation (that is differ to Ryan's) do not use any headers
except ELF header and just 3 bytes in it to store next location. So,
it's patent clear.
PS. Patents is evil. This is very common way to store different arch
binaries...
Rgds,
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 15:50 FatELF & patents Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 16:01 ` Anton D. Kachalov [this message]
2009-10-26 17:59 ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 18:42 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-26 21:54 ` David Miller
2009-10-26 22:15 ` Rayson Ho
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