From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262009AbVCHLkQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:40:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262013AbVCHLhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:37:05 -0500 Received: from mx01.qsc.de ([213.148.129.14]:64400 "EHLO mx01.qsc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262009AbVCHLZ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:25:26 -0500 Message-ID: <422D8BA3.9020703@exactcode.de> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:25:23 +0100 From: Rene Rebe Organization: ExactCode User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raphael Jacquot CC: Mateusz Berezecki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, t2 developers mailing list Subject: Re: Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?) References: <422C7722.40301@gmail.com> <422C7979.9050404@imag.fr> In-Reply-To: <422C7979.9050404@imag.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ +49 (0)30 255 897 45