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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On 12 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Unfortunately the USA forces people to deal with this crap. I'd hope SGI
> would be decent enough to explicitly state they will license this stuff
> freely for GPL use

I seem to remember Apple having a clause for this in
their Darwin sources, forbidding people who contribute
code from suing them about patent violations due to
the code they themselves contributed.

kind regards,

Rik
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Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".

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