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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:12:04 +0200
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 19:55, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > Having a license that explicitly states that people who
> > contribute and use Linux shouldn't sue you over it might
> > prevent some problems.
> 
> The thing is, if you own the patent, and you sneaked the code into the
> kernel, you will almost certainly be laughed out of court for trying to
> enforce it.
> 
> And if somebody else owns the patent, no amount of copyright license makes 
> any difference.

I don't think that's correct.  SGI needs to use and distribute Linux more
than they need to enforce their reverse mapping patents against Linux
users.

-- 
Daniel
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