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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:38:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031218233815.0e34075e.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031218231137.GA13652@gnu.org>

If you are not the patent holder and are not licensed by them,
then I don't think you have the right to be publishing code
using it, anywhere, Linux kernel or elsewhere.

And I presume that if we found code in the kernel that used a
patent that had not been released by its holder for use under
the GPL, we would rip that code out.

And I am not a lawyer.  You should ignore my advice above, and
obtain the council of a qualified attorney, before continuing
on the path you considering.

-- 
                          I won't rest till it's the best ...
                          Programmer, Linux Scalability
                          Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-19  7:35 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 [this message]
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
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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