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From: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
To: Raphael Jacquot <raphael.jacquot@imag.fr>
Cc: Mateusz Berezecki <mateuszb@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	t2 developers mailing list <t2@exactcode.de>
Subject: Re: Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:25:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422D8BA3.9020703@exactcode.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422C7979.9050404@imag.fr>

Hi,

Raphael Jacquot wrote:

> as your name appears european, there are no software patents (yet ?) so 
> you should be able to release that code as required for interoperability

The release of that source does not depend on software patents (which 
seem to be acked yesterday for europe ... ;-()

However with software patents a company could sue you for violating a 
patent wheter you wrote the code or reverse engeneered it. E.g. for a 
"transmitting information without cables, e.g. binary encoded via a 
radio signal modulated this and that way. claims: any implementation 
that transmit information without cables (including birds in the air) 
... and so on the usual patent fluff ..." patent.

Yours,

-- 
René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)
             http://www.exactcode.de/ | http://www.t2-project.org/
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-07 15:45 Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?) Mateusz Berezecki
2005-03-07 15:55 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-03-08 11:25   ` Rene Rebe [this message]
2005-03-11 15:52   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-03-07 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-08 20:13   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-07 17:36 ` Roland Dreier
2005-03-08  0:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-08  6:08   ` Mateusz Berezecki

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