Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:02:34 -0200 | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure |
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Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Nov 26, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:05 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Maybe I'm being too conservative here, but I have a personal interest in >> keeping Linux free and unencumbered even in the US which, I cannot deny, >> has a patent system that is screwed up. > > So I had one of the people who does all the license and patent audits for > Fedora packages look at the Philips patent on RC-6. He's 100% positive > that the patent *only* covers hardware, there should be no problem whatsoever > writing a software decoder for RC-6.
That's good!
Cheers, Mauro.
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