Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)

Daniel Phillips
2002-08-13T19:10:18Z

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 19:55, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > Having a license that explicitly states that people who
> > contribute and use Linux shouldn't sue you over it might
> > prevent some problems.
>
> The thing is, if you own the patent, and you sneaked the code into the
> kernel, you will almost certainly be laughed out of court for trying to
> enforce it.
>
> And if somebody else owns the patent, no amount of copyright license makes
> any difference.

I don't think that's correct. SGI needs to use and distribute Linux more
than they need to enforce their reverse mapping patents against Linux
users.

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Daniel