From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel?
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:23:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416767BA.1020204@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52zn2wlh8h.fsf@topspin.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
> Jeff> Read the member agreement :) It -explicitly- does -not-
> Jeff> require waiving of patent claims related to any
> Jeff> implementation of IB.
>
> Jeff> That's different from ATA, SCSI, USB, the list goes on...
>
> Fair enough, but read the Bluetooth SIG patent agreement [1]. As far
> as I can tell, all it requires is that other SIG members receive a
> patent license. Do we need to do rm -rf net/bluetooth? IEEE only
> requires that patents be licensed under RAND terms (it does not even
> require royalty free licensing) [2]. Time for rm -rf drivers/ieee1394?
As my mother would ask, would you jump off a cliff just because your
friend did?
If there is questionable code, that is _not_ a justification to add more.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-09 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-08 20:22 InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel? Greg KH
2004-10-08 20:38 ` [openib-general] " Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-08 22:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Greg KH
2004-10-08 23:24 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 23:26 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-08 23:29 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 23:27 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-10-09 3:40 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 0:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-09 3:09 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 4:23 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-09 21:11 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-10 19:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 11:50 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-09 20:47 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-22 23:59 ` Troy Benjegerdes
[not found] ` <6.1.2.0.2.20041008152933.01f671a8@esmail.cup.hp.com>
2004-10-11 18:27 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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