From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:02:34 -0200 Message-ID: <4B1D898A.5070000@redhat.com> References: <1259024037.3871.36.camel@palomino.walls.org> <4B0E8B32.3020509@redhat.com> <1259264614.1781.47.camel@localhost> <6B4C84CD-F146-4B8B-A8BB-9963E0BA4C47@wilsonet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6B4C84CD-F146-4B8B-A8BB-9963E0BA4C47@wilsonet.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jarod Wilson Cc: Andy Walls , Krzysztof Halasa , Christoph Bartelmus , dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, superm1@ubuntu.com List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Nov 26, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:05 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Maybe I'm being too conservative here, but I have a personal interest in >> keeping Linux free and unencumbered even in the US which, I cannot deny, >> has a patent system that is screwed up. > > So I had one of the people who does all the license and patent audits for > Fedora packages look at the Philips patent on RC-6. He's 100% positive > that the patent *only* covers hardware, there should be no problem whatsoever > writing a software decoder for RC-6. That's good! Cheers, Mauro.