Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com>]

Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>:
> > Think harder.  The problem with area-of-application rules is isomorphic
> > to the "commercial/noncommercial" problem.  The really nasty cases are
> > near service libraries.
> 
> Maybe you should spell this out.
> 
> For example, service libraries need not be a problem.  Consider a
> service library which infringes a patent on SIP, which is to be
> restricted to interoperability with the SIP protocol.  There is no
> issue if the service library is only useful with SIP, because all the
> use cases of the service library (excluding looking at the code and
> taking away the code) would be OK by the policy.
> 
> Obviously, there is a problem if a patent claims to invent something
> commonplace such as 'xml', and grants its use only for the purpose of
> IETF standards or a specific standard.  But I'm not sure if I recall
> something like that.

What happens when I want to re-use (say) a hash function from a library with
patent coverage and an area-of-application rule on the patent license?
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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