On Wednesday 30 March 2005 13:29, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Someone comes along and writes an ftp: module for Apache. �It uses the > lingering close feature. �Unfortunately, the grantor of this (non)patent > never intended to give it to the ASF for any purpose other than http: > and did not license that application of the method.
Is this really the case? The way I have always read it is that downstream licensees can do whatever they want with the "http lingering close" codebase, for instance make a ftp server, and the patent grant would still apply. Cheers & more confused than ever... Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: Discussions on this list are informational and educational only, are not privileged and do not constitute legal advice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
