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On Sul, 2005-01-09 at 09:59, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: > There are several independent designs in the market for these chipsets, but as > far as I know the patents only govern the complete chipset, thus the contents > of the chipset is not to be worried about. > The other patent issue is the 802.11 standard itself. Is that patent free? > (IE: That would be a stupid patent) There are a set of patents involved for the hardware but when you buy the chipsets you normally buy the chipsets and all the attached rights to use, just like when you buy a pentium IV you don't then go and get a set of patent licenses from amd, intel. ibm and so on. To sell the product you then also need to meet FCC and/or CE mark testing as appropriate for your target market. Typically thats upwards of $10K Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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