Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:12:04 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 19:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Having a license that explicitly states that people who > > contribute and use Linux shouldn't sue you over it might > > prevent some problems. > > The thing is, if you own the patent, and you sneaked the code into the > kernel, you will almost certainly be laughed out of court for trying to > enforce it. > > And if somebody else owns the patent, no amount of copyright license makes > any difference.
I don't think that's correct. SGI needs to use and distribute Linux more than they need to enforce their reverse mapping patents against Linux users.
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