Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:21:07PM -0400, Zack Rusin wrote: >> On Thursday 01 October 2009 14:13:15 Greg KH wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As discussed at XDC2009 in your talk about patents and xorg, I talked >>> with the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory board about the issues >>> your raised in your talk. >>> >>> I have a contact at the LF and OIN to put you in contact with, but >>> wanted to ask if there was anyone else that wanted in on the email >>> thread and possible phone call (lawyers love phone calls, not email...) >>> >>> Anyone else want in on the fun? >> I don't know what patent issues you were discussing but I'm guessing it's >> mainly about the floating point plus s3tc stuff. > > Yes, that is what was discussed. > >> Just so that you know, we have been trying to handle this in some way >> for a long time and a few lawyers was already involved in the process. >> Given that, especially the first one, is explicit in its prohibition >> of open source, short of buying it as a company I'm not sure what >> Linux Foundation wants to do. Either way though, Brian is the person >> to talk to about options here because he's been endlessly trying to >> come up with ways of dealing with those problems. > > Ok, great. Brian, care to talk to OIN and the Linux Foundation about > this?
I'm afraid that I don't have much to report at this time. We're trying to talk to Via/SGI about these things but it's a slow process. You can add me to your email/phone list. > And yes, OIN does buy patents, they just got a few that used to be owned > by SGI that deal with graphic issues so there is precedence here. The so-called graphics patents involved there were GUI/web things, like browsing remote file systems graphically, IIRC. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
