From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] use of patented algorithms in the kernel ok or not?
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:38:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031218233815.0e34075e.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031218231137.GA13652@gnu.org>
If you are not the patent holder and are not licensed by them,
then I don't think you have the right to be publishing code
using it, anywhere, Linux kernel or elsewhere.
And I presume that if we found code in the kernel that used a
patent that had not been released by its holder for use under
the GPL, we would rip that code out.
And I am not a lawyer. You should ignore my advice above, and
obtain the council of a qualified attorney, before continuing
on the path you considering.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-19 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-18 23:11 [OT] use of patented algorithms in the kernel ok or not? Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-19 6:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-19 7:38 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2003-12-19 8:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-19 11:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-12-20 17:28 ` Stefan Traby
2003-12-21 10:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 16:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 15:35 ` Chuck Campbell
2004-01-13 19:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 21:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-22 0:37 ` jw schultz
2003-12-21 23:39 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-21 1:25 ` jw schultz
2003-12-21 19:40 ` Lennert Buytenhek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-21 1:12 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-21 10:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 13:35 ` James Morris
2003-12-21 14:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 16:03 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-21 14:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-21 19:33 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 23:25 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-21 19:29 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 19:55 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-12-21 20:11 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 21:52 ` Francois Romieu
2003-12-21 21:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-22 9:50 ` John Bradford
2003-12-22 15:34 ` Adrian Cox
2003-12-22 1:43 James Lamanna
2003-12-22 11:32 ` Matti Aarnio
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