Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 07/25/03

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    To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:36:30 -0400

    On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:24 BST, John Bradford said:

    > What if a patent is discovered which is owned by somebody other than
    > Larry, which covers something in BK? If nobody is allowed to use BK,
    > how would we get the data out?

    And more importantly, what would you put the data back *INTO*?

    There's no guarantee that said patent doesn't also screw over all CVS users,
    or SCCS, or what have you.

    Also, there's a *very* good chance that any patent that hits BK would *also*
    afflict a BK clone, unless they were lucky enough to use a totally different
    algorithm to achieve the same on-the-wire result. And if the patent is against
    the *idea* of doing XYZ with a computer, then the algorithm won't matter anyhow.

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