From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932385AbVLMXFz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:05:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932608AbVLMXFz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:05:55 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:57521 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932385AbVLMXFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:05:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: mreuther@umich.edu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051213175901.7yshajkzk0s848k8@engin.mail.umich.edu> References: <20051213175901.7yshajkzk0s848k8@engin.mail.umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:05:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1134515145.3319.45.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 17:59 -0500, mreuther@umich.edu wrote: > There was a recent lawsuit, settled before judgement, in the USA over > the ownership of a GPL program that implemented a copyrighted standard. The document (as such) containing the standard is copyrighted. But this has nothing to do with: "I read the standard somewhere somehow and implement it in some piece of GPLed software." What do you exactly really mean? > The name of the case was Drew Technologies v. Society of Automotive > Engineers. URL? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services