On Thursday 09 August 2007 14:43, Raj Mathur wrote: > 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. End users are patent licenced by the patent holder - not bsnl - for use and modification for self, not for down stream distribution. Bsnl does not sue, the patent holder sues - not you the enduser - but anyone else you happen to distribute to. > 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, U cant sue if you own the patented code and distribute - that case is sortof covered in gplv2 - but perversely you can sue Rony if u gave the code to me and i gave it to Rony. When u distribute to me u also automatically give permission to me to use a patent but not to redistribute. So when i disitribute to Rony u can sue Rony. To make it a nice milking scheme u allow me to redistribute. So now i sell to Rony and u dont sue Rony. But if Rony gives DJ you can sue DJ. Since DJ cant ask me code. Rony can and i have to give the source to him.Rony can do everything he wishes with it except redistribute. although the gpl2 allows him to redsitribute to DJ, your patent is a sword on DJ's head. > unsubscribe from > all mailing lists and go and live a life of luxury beyond my > wildest dreams in the Himalayas. you could do that without a lot of money just join up a monastery in bhutan ;-) (btw one karateka from India who used to train the usa marines did just that) -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
