10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
23:33
Anders Johansson
On Friday 10 November 2006 19:05, Juergen Weigert wrote:
Novell does not distribute any patent infringing code.
I think the operative word there is "infringing", meaning code that is shipped as GPL against the will of the patent owner.
Code where the patent owner has granted a permanent license under the GPL is obviously not counted
Like IBM granted a permanent license for certain patents for programs using GPLed code like RCU (used in the kernel) and register allocation (used in GCC), Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126