From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] use of patented algorithms in the kernel ok or not?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:47:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071823624.5223.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031218231137.GA13652@gnu.org>
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On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:11, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> However, I am aware that there is a patent on this algorithm, exclusively
> licensed to a major manufacturer of networking equipment.
a patent in which country ?
Maybe we need a CONFIG_USA so that we can enhance the kernel for
non-unitedstatians while keeping it safe to run in that one country with
the patents as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-19 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-18 23:11 Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-19 6:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-19 7:38 ` Paul Jackson
2003-12-19 8:47 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-12-19 11:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-12-20 17:28 ` Stefan Traby
2003-12-21 10:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 16:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 15:35 ` Chuck Campbell
2004-01-13 19:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 21:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-22 0:37 ` jw schultz
2003-12-21 23:39 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-21 1:25 ` jw schultz
2003-12-21 19:40 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-21 1:12 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-21 10:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 13:35 ` James Morris
2003-12-21 14:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 16:03 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-21 14:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-21 19:33 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 23:25 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-21 19:29 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 19:55 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-12-21 20:11 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-21 21:52 ` Francois Romieu
2003-12-21 21:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-22 9:50 ` John Bradford
2003-12-22 15:34 ` Adrian Cox
2003-12-22 1:43 James Lamanna
2003-12-22 11:32 ` Matti Aarnio
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