-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 August 2007 14:10, jtd wrote: > [snip] > In the usa (and probably "as such" in India) he can patent some piece > of drivel and pump it into the modem. then tieup with bsnl not to sue > BSNL customers buying the modem. So if you bought a bsnl modem, > demanded and recieved the code, then re-cross-compiled (or dd the rom > binary) and pumped the code into your own design modem / 386box / > whatever he can sue you.
I very much doubt if a court would uphold an action against you by a provider if you compile and use a piece of code that the provider himself supplied you with. If they did, I'm getting busy patenting algorithm foo, embedding it into a piece of GPLv2 code and allowing everyone to download and use that code. 2 months later I'll sue them all for patent violation, make lots of money, unsubscribe from all mailing lists and go and live a life of luxury beyond my wildest dreams in the Himalayas. > M$ Novell deal does something similiar with the added M$ innovation > of claiming 200 odd undisclosed patents. So the gplv3, which irons > out the corner-cases-now-mainstream of distribution thru services/ > lease/ third party paten truce/ embeded/ and such other subterfuges. Regards, - -- Raju "I know how to spell y-o-u" Mathur - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFGutrByWjQ78xo0X8RAo3dAJ9ay+CEym63JBQDEmwjfKciwzYEywCY8cVf RElo0ltTkfGmp23mJwHoUw== =XLzJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
