lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2000]   [Oct]   [3]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Tux2 - evil patents sighted
Ion Badulescu wrote:
>
> In article <news2mail-39D93163.343E7A9B@innominate.de> Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > It is important that all technology used in GPL software be free of
> > patent restrictions.
>
> Indeed.
>
> For another fine example of GPL technology covered by a parent, check out:
>
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US06049528__
>
> This a patent filed by Sun in June 1997 and awarded in April 2000 which
> covers very well the ethernet bonding device in Linux 2.2.x.
>
> I wonder if the equalizer device present in Linux kernels since before
> 1996 could count as prior art. IANAL, of course.
>

Or, even better, the fact that Ethernet bonding has been available as a
Linux patch since about 1995..

I'm sure Donald Becker could produce prior art on that one!

--
------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
Thomas Davis | PDSF Project Leader
tadavis@lbl.gov |
(510) 486-4524 | "Only a petabyte of data this year?"
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:39    [W:0.170 / U:0.536 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site