This is just a first step. Someone[0] has claimed that the patent has had a continuation. While only new claims would be covered in the continuation, until someone evaluates those new claims in regards to any implementation, presuming that any existing implementations that someone in Fedora may wish to package are no longer patented is probably premature.
And that is why we (well, IBM) pays their IP lawyers so well, in order to get the decision right (i.e. it is always more complicated than it first appears). [0] I don't think they are an IP attorney, but they did not specify -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
