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From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
To: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF & patents
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:42:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE5ED98.8090500@icculus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73a01bf20910261059j74bb37a9td472efc21c5440ca@mail.gmail.com>


> However, there are 20 claims in the patent. Just using a different way
> to store the architecture independent header might not be enough.

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't have anything to add to this except that 
FatELF has a few fields that Apple's format doesn't, so the flow chart 
they specify isn't the same. I don't really know enough about how 
patents work.

Any lawyers around that can comment on this? Is this something to be 
concerned with (and if so, what sort of changes would make FatELF not 
violate the patent), or is this all just business as usual?

--ryan.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 15:50 FatELF & patents Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 16:01 ` Anton D. Kachalov
2009-10-26 17:59   ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 18:42     ` Ryan C. Gordon [this message]
2009-10-26 21:54     ` David Miller
2009-10-26 22:15       ` Rayson Ho

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