Hi,
On 07/22/2011 09:54 AM, Marian Marinov wrote:
I spoke with my colleges about Ksplice and one very interesting question popped up:
What will happen with our fork efforts if Oracle suddenly patent the Ksplicesoftware ?
There are some patents(?) already involved : http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/ksplice-inc/
- http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100269105 - http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100269106
I know that in Europe we don't have the problem with software pattents and the GPL will protect us from any issues like that.
However what is the situation in the US and other countries that have software pattents ?
Carrying content that has patent or regional restrictions is always going to be a tricky question for what we are doing in .centos.org - but there are people we can talk to about stuff like this if there is a need to clear stuff up.
- KB