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like this patent will ever fly
- From: Christopher Layne <clayne at anodized dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:55:34 -0800
- Subject: like this patent will ever fly
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2574359
A series of patents have been filed by the well-known Linux kernel developer,
Alan Cox, asserting ownership of any DRM technology employed in software to
modify the behavior of a system if certain conditions are not met. Since Red
Hat and Cox himself are staunch open-source proponents, if this patent is
granted it is likely that they will choose not to license this technology,
and instead, sue for any use of it as a defense of OSS. Red Hat's patent
policy (http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html) states that any
patents they own will be used to defend FOSS developers if attacked. It
also states that their patents may be used freely in OSS under gpl.