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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:11 -0800, Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 11/7/06, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote: > > How can they do that if licensing the work requires licensing patents that > > Novell has no right to license? > > rtfa: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html > > May not be correct, but it's an answer nonetheless :) If I understand the first answer correctly, there actually is: ---- snip ---- This agreement is primarily intended for Novell's customers. It doesn't imply or guarantee that you are *not* sued. An exception may be if you are a customer of Novell, than M$ will not sue you *directly*. So for all Non-Novell customers: You may be sued directly from M$ (and from all others). So for all: You may be sued indirectly by M$ (and directly from all others). ---- snip ---- SCNR, Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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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