"Alan P. Laudicina" wrote:
>
> Sorry if someone has asked this before but here is my question
> regarding the recent patent. Is there any possibility of a
> royalty-free license being granted to the hurd project?
Victor might correct me, but as far is i understood, as long
as you do a "free" (1) implementation, you will obtain
a license for "free" (2).
(1) From what Victor toled me some time ago, he will strongly
follow the "open source way". His patent is only to defend
his basic idea against similar patents that were intended
for rt-extensions for i.e. WindowsNT.
As far as i have understood it, any "free" license will be
covered. IMHO, BSD should be "free" enough :-)
(2) "free", except taking the time for sending an email or
somewhat like this :-)
if it will be a fashion to do defensive patents
i the future, every project has to maintain
a web-server that automaticaly sends licenses on
requests concerning the key word "free" :-)
Bernhard
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