On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:46 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote: > 1) So, if any company uses patents/IP from Sony, Red Hat, IBM, NEC, > Novell, Phillips they lose the ability to sue Red Hat & customers > 2) If people use Red Hat patents in open-source software, we don't > pursue them > 3) If someone does sue a RHEL customer, or Red Hat, we replace the code > or just buy the IP/patent
So as I expected, it's the RHEL customers that get the first-class protection (#3), but perhaps I get some protection. Does #1 apply to my use of Fedora (i.e., am I a "licensee" of the OIN to the extent that I use Fedora), or just to Red Hat's commercial customers? Matt
