From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] use of patented algorithms in the kernel ok or not?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:25:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031221232512.GA20779@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1072035217.1286.123.camel@duergar>
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:33:38PM -0500, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
>
> What about the legal ramifications in the US of distributing code using
> an algorithm that is covered by a patent without permission. What are
> we gonna just not distribute the kernel in the US at all? Cause that's
> the only way to safely do what you all keep blathering about without a
> license. By putting the code in the kernel you are putting us in the US
> at risk, someone could argue you are giving people a means to violate a
> patent in the US...not something you want to be doing!
>
Hard to say, but consider this:
Something patented is _not_ a secret, and therefore not a trade secret.
Anything patented can be looked up in the patent databases by anybody.
So there cannot be any problem with distributing this patented knowledge.
Using it is another matter, but it is up to the user not to disable
CONFIG_USA within us jurisdiction.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-21 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-22 1:43 James Lamanna
2003-12-22 11:32 ` Matti Aarnio
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
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
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