Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:21:07PM -0400, Zack Rusin wrote: >> On Thursday 01 October 2009 14:13:15 Greg KH wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As discussed at XDC2009 in your talk about patents and xorg, I talked >>> with the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory board about the issues >>> your raised in your talk. >>> >>> I have a contact at the LF and OIN to put you in contact with, but >>> wanted to ask if there was anyone else that wanted in on the email >>> thread and possible phone call (lawyers love phone calls, not email...) >>> >>> Anyone else want in on the fun? >> I don't know what patent issues you were discussing but I'm guessing it's >> mainly about the floating point plus s3tc stuff. > > Yes, that is what was discussed. > >> Just so that you know, we have been trying to handle this in some way >> for a long time and a few lawyers was already involved in the process. >> Given that, especially the first one, is explicit in its prohibition >> of open source, short of buying it as a company I'm not sure what >> Linux Foundation wants to do. Either way though, Brian is the person >> to talk to about options here because he's been endlessly trying to >> come up with ways of dealing with those problems. > > Ok, great. Brian, care to talk to OIN and the Linux Foundation about > this?
I'm afraid that I don't have much to report at this time. We're trying to talk to Via/SGI about these things but it's a slow process. You can add me to your email/phone list. > And yes, OIN does buy patents, they just got a few that used to be owned > by SGI that deal with graphic issues so there is precedence here. The so-called graphics patents involved there were GUI/web things, like browsing remote file systems graphically, IIRC. -Brian _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
