> > On 20 February 2018 at 17:20, Chuck Atkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > FWIW, the patent should expire this June in which case it should no > longer > > be an issue. > > > I think you're confusing "application fill-in date" with "date patent > issued".
Nope. Last year I contacted RPX Holdings, the compay that currently holds the patent, to see if it would be feasible for a reasonable cost for Kitware to get a license to this patent so we could distribute pre-compiled mesa binaries in ParaView with that feature enabled. The costs associated with it wasn't going to be reasonable from a business stand point so we didn't do it. Howevr, in those discussions RPX did inform us that the patent will expire "next yer", i.e. 2018, so we would only need the license for a year. The history of this particular patent is actually pretty interesting since it folows much of the slicing and dicing and acuiring and selling of SGI over the past two decades. I asusme we'd want some official legally binding approval before blanket-enabling it again but based on my conversations with RPX it seems they're operating on the premise of 20y + the effective date in '98 - Chuck
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