From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: "Tilmans\,
Olivier \(Nokia - BE\/Antwerp\)"
<olivier.tilmans@nokia-bell-labs.com>,
Olga Albisser <olgabnd@gmail.com>,
"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Olga Albisser <olga@albisser.org>, "De Schepper\,
Koen \(Nokia - BE\/Antwerp\)"
<koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com>,
Bob Briscoe <research@bobbriscoe.net>,
Henrik Steen <henrist@henrist.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] sched: add dualpi2 scheduler module
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:18:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o96dxiic.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR07MB481916D7FB8512557EDA0D98E04B0@AM0PR07MB4819.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>
"Tilmans, Olivier (Nokia - BE/Antwerp)"
<olivier.tilmans@nokia-bell-labs.com> writes:
>> I noticed that there's an IPR disclosure filed at the IETF[0] claiming a
>> patent on the algorithm. I'm curious if you know whether Nokia has an
>> official position on the use of that patent in this implementation if it
>> becomes part of the kernel? :)
>
> Hi Toke,
>
> My understanding is that the GPLv2 is ambiguous wrt. patent licensing,
> which is unfortunate as it is the current license of this code.
Yup, that is partly why I'm asking :)
> I'll get an official statement from our legal department regarding the
> use of the patent in the context of the Linux kernel, hopefully in a
> reasonable timeframe as a few key people are currently on vacations.
Great, thanks!
-Toke
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-14 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-11 15:14 [PATCH net-next] sched: add dualpi2 scheduler module Olga Albisser
2019-03-11 15:41 ` Eric Dumazet
[not found] ` <CANFQ_ZhUOXwiWhmgzN227htWh5Wxg5PHBxHNp=T1Z8YTu-=O5w@mail.gmail.com>
2019-03-11 16:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-03-11 16:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-03-11 16:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-03-11 22:13 ` kbuild test robot
2019-03-14 16:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-03-14 17:18 ` Tilmans, Olivier (Nokia - BE/Antwerp)
2019-03-14 21:18 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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