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 Ksplice > software ? 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