Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:36:30 -0400 |
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:24 BST, John Bradford said:
> What if a patent is discovered which is owned by somebody other than > Larry, which covers something in BK? If nobody is allowed to use BK, > how would we get the data out?
And more importantly, what would you put the data back *INTO*?
There's no guarantee that said patent doesn't also screw over all CVS users, or SCCS, or what have you.
Also, there's a *very* good chance that any patent that hits BK would *also* afflict a BK clone, unless they were lucky enough to use a totally different algorithm to achieve the same on-the-wire result. And if the patent is against the *idea* of doing XYZ with a computer, then the algorithm won't matter anyhow.
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