On 12 Jun 2002, Bob Ham wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:18, Dan Hollis wrote: > > I talked to gibson directly about magic. They stated it's patented and > > they won't give permission for open source implementation. > I wonder what they have patents on, and whether they're applicable to > the UK.
Actually I went back and dug up the actual reply from gibson. Here it is verbatim: "We hold a patent on MaGIC, and have cleared any prior works. There is no setup or per unit royalty on MaGIC Products. Development boards are sold at cost.Our SDK is $2500. Neither the Development board or SDK is required to make MaGIC enabled products, but it will vastly help you in your development efforts. All we ask is that you sign a royalty free license agreement, ad provide a unit for interoperability testing." So I guess its ok to implement MaGIC... -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
