FSMLabs has a patent on running Linux as a thread within a real-time operating system that is used in their RTLinux distribution. If you develop a real-time module under the GPL, you are automatically covered by their patent license. If you want to release a real-time module under a different license than the GPL, you need to get a commercial patent license from FSMLabs.
In this usenet posting Linus states that neither he nor the FSF have a problem with the FSMLabs patent.
The GPL and LGPL contain language with the goal that "any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all", while the MIT license does not contain similar language.
Consider the following scenario. Intel (they asked for the license change so they get to be the bad guys in this hypothetical example) extends the Mono framework to support a new image compression algorithm and releases their code under the MIT license. GNOME uses this new compression algorithm in their next release. Intel then discloses that they have a patent on the compression method and demands royalty payments. What happens to GNOME?
Niels Ferguson should place the paper with the HDCP encryption crack on a machine infected with Sircam. That way he doesn't have to "publish" his results.
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FSMLabs has a patent on running Linux as a thread within a real-time operating system that is used in their RTLinux distribution. If you develop a real-time module under the GPL, you are automatically covered by their patent license. If you want to release a real-time module under a different license than the GPL, you need to get a commercial patent license from FSMLabs.
In this usenet posting Linus states that neither he nor the FSF have a problem with the FSMLabs patent.
CNET's review of IE6 gave it a score of 7, same as Mozilla 1.0 on XP.
The GPL and LGPL contain language with the goal that "any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all", while the MIT license does not contain similar language.
Consider the following scenario. Intel (they asked for the license change so they get to be the bad guys in this hypothetical example) extends the Mono framework to support a new image compression algorithm and releases their code under the MIT license. GNOME uses this new compression algorithm in their next release. Intel then discloses that they have a patent on the compression method and demands royalty payments. What happens to GNOME?
... only outlaws will have cryptography.
Niels Ferguson should place the paper with the HDCP encryption crack on a machine infected with Sircam. That way he doesn't have to "publish" his results.