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Patents don't warrant a forkPatents don't warrant a forkPosted Dec 4, 2008 8:45 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: KSM runs into patent trouble by Felix.Braun Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble
Other projects had such issues for years. GIF patend, IDEA (ecryption algorythm) patent, etc. They all just had switches to enable them (default is "disabled", of course). Remember: kernel source can not infringe the patent - it's just a bunch of text. If you want to create binary - it's up to you to prove taht you are not infringing. The one who'll bring compiled binary of KSM to US will be infringer, not kernel developers...
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Patents don't warrant a fork Posted Dec 5, 2008 13:21 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
I've seen the assertion that source does not infringe several times... but can anyone back it up? Otherwise, we could just implement our MPEG encoders in Python and not have to worry about this patent nonsense... :)
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