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Documenting kernel code provenance

Documenting kernel code provenance

Posted May 27, 2004 8:45 UTC (Thu) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207)
In reply to: Documenting kernel code provenance by smoogen
Parent article: Documenting kernel code provenance

One thing that it would help with a patent fight is get the history involved so that prior art could be established easier. Showing that it was implemented before a patent was awarded could help.

This is very true. People can help to achieve this by contributing to the Grokline Project: http://www.grokline.net/


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