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From: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd.eu>
To: David Brown <mtd@davidb.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: patented FTL format
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:23:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910011123.07588.matthias.fuchs@esd.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930172832.GA4574@linode.davidb.org>

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:28, David Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> 
> >Or with other words, does a translation layer (we would also call it
> >differently) that allows using things like ext3 on a bare NAND chip
> >conflict with any patents?
> 
> I'm going to guess that most of the people who know the answer to this
> question won't be able to talk about it.  Opinions from
> non-legal-experts probably isn't all that useful anyway.
> 
I hope to get an idea about a starting point where to find the answer.
I did no ask anybody to sign his answer.

I expected get heard by the maintainer of the FTL code. Somebody
must have added the notice to the source code. Perhaps that person
knows why :-)

Matthias

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30 15:32 patented FTL format Matthias Fuchs
2009-09-30 17:28 ` David Brown
2009-10-01  9:23   ` Matthias Fuchs [this message]
2009-10-01 10:30     ` Wolfram Sang
2009-10-06 13:41       ` Matthias Fuchs
2009-10-06 13:46         ` Wolfram Sang

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