Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:23:22 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel? |
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Roland Dreier wrote: > Jeff> Read the member agreement :) It -explicitly- does -not- > Jeff> require waiving of patent claims related to any > Jeff> implementation of IB. > > Jeff> That's different from ATA, SCSI, USB, the list goes on... > > Fair enough, but read the Bluetooth SIG patent agreement [1]. As far > as I can tell, all it requires is that other SIG members receive a > patent license. Do we need to do rm -rf net/bluetooth? IEEE only > requires that patents be licensed under RAND terms (it does not even > require royalty free licensing) [2]. Time for rm -rf drivers/ieee1394?
As my mother would ask, would you jump off a cliff just because your friend did?
If there is questionable code, that is _not_ a justification to add more.
Jeff
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