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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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  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 [OT] use of patented algorithms in the kernel ok or not? 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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