From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Guillaume Boissiere <boissiere@adiglobal.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2
Date: 01 Aug 2002 14:42:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028209375.14871.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020801093335.AAA7575@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:33, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> >An additional problem with a BSD like license is that it makes no
> >statement on patents - regrettably a critical issue now days in the
> >USSA. That means nothing prevents CITI from providing BSD licensed code
> >and then 6 months later sueing everyone who used it. I don't see CITI
> >doing that but the basic problem is still there.
>
> Sure something prevents them. You can't induce people to violate your patent
> and then complain when they do what you induced them to do. Remember Rambus?
You don't have to induce them, you just announce release 1 and wait for
someone to pick it up and merge it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-19 4:47 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-19 5:08 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-19 12:41 ` mbs
2002-07-19 13:16 ` jlnance
2002-07-20 7:28 ` Bruce Harada
2002-07-28 10:47 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-07-31 17:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-31 17:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 18:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-31 20:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-31 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-01 0:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-31 23:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2002-08-01 9:33 ` David Schwartz
2002-08-01 13:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-08-01 15:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2002-07-31 22:04 ` David Lang
2002-08-01 9:33 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-03 3:40 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-08 9:02 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-13 3:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-13 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-01 0:34 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-01 1:56 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-01 2:30 ` Roland Dreier
2002-08-01 3:25 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-01 4:05 ` Roland Dreier
2002-08-01 5:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 6:10 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-08-05 7:29 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-01 18:45 ` Ben Greear
2002-08-01 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 2:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 17:11 Matt_Domsch
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