From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@deltatee.com>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Response from M-Systems
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 21:21:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E112h9B-0002dD-00@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
jgg@deltatee.com said:
> Yeah, he wouldn't. The GPL is reasonably clear that you have to give
> up patent rights. IBM's laywers and Apple's laywers both concure on
> this. If you as a compay GPL an implementation for an algorithm then
> that company must give free use patent rights to everyone who recieves
> a copy of the code, which is effectively everyone.
And if I personally release some code under GPL, what then? Have I
singlehandedly voided their patents, to which I didn't have any right in the
first place?
I'd like to know precisely why IBM and Apple lawyers think that. I can't see
it myself. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but I'd expect to understand if I saw
the explanation. Can you see an actual flaw in my logic?
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1999-07-09 20:21 David Woodhouse [this message]
1999-07-09 20:43 ` Response from M-Systems Jason Gunthorpe
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1999-07-12 10:56 David Woodhouse
1999-07-12 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
1999-07-09 22:55 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 21:57 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 22:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
1999-07-09 21:16 David Woodhouse
1999-07-11 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
1999-07-09 18:50 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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