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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> | ||
| Cc: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o, licenses@g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software | ||
| Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:41:35 | ||
| Message-Id: | uilyvozse@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software by "Robin H. Johnson" |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > RedHat's legal team clearly know something there that they aren't |
| 4 | > disclosing the details of publicly, because the patches said the |
| 5 | > patents expire in 2020, but when I asked off-list if EC could be |
| 6 | > re-enabled based on the expiry dates in the files, they claimed that |
| 7 | > patent issues were still present, without giving any detail. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | If there are remaining patent issues then they should be able to support |
| 10 | their claim by facts, like a patent number. Why would this be difficult, |
| 11 | or what reason would they have not to disclose it? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | > [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl/c/347681c6b246d9b6a08c73bb40e5eefaf8596d71?branch=rawhide |
| 14 | > [2] https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-legal/msg03673.html |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software | "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> |