Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753293AbZKDBJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:09:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751800AbZKDBJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:09:54 -0500 Received: from icculus.org ([67.106.77.212]:33577 "EHLO icculus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751105AbZKDBJx (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:09:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:09:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Ryan C. Gordon" X-X-Sender: icculus@caridad.icculuslan To: Alan Cox cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: FatELF patches... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1257103201.2865.6.camel@chumley> <20091102000147.424f104b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091102185315.6326e148@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (OSX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 33 > You mentioned the patent thing and I don't have an answer at all yet from > a lawyer. Let's table this for awhile until I have more information about > that. If there's going to be a patent problem, it's not worth wasting > everyone's time any further. > > If it turns out to be no big deal, we can decide to revisit this. The Software Freedom Law Center replied with this... "I refer you to our Legal Guide section on dealing with patents available from our website. I also refer you to our amici brief in Bilski, where we argue that patents on pure software are invalid. If a patent is invalid, there's no reason to consider whether it is infringed." ...which may be promising some day, but doesn't resolve current concerns. Also: "I read a FAQ" doesn't hold up in court. :) Based on feedback from this list, the patent concern that I'm not qualified to resolve myself, and belief that I'll be on the losing end of the same argument with the glibc maintainers after this, I'm withdrawing my FatELF patch. If anyone wants it, I'll leave the project page and patches in place at http://icculus.org/fatelf/ ... Thank you everyone for your time and feedback. --ryan. -- 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/