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Story: IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 13 April 2005, 11:11 PM)
This is highly irresponsible reporting. The linux newsgroups and open source coders have no idea how patents might or might not affect GPL or BSD-type licenses. These guys are not doing this upon the advice of counsel. The bottom line is that neither the GPL or BSD-type licenses affect patent rights or award patent licenses upstream or downstream in any way - they just don't matter. It is irresponsible of Ms. Marson to report upon random comments from an ill-informed newsgroup readership that have no relationship to the legal duties or consequences involved.
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