Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

[Traiano Welcome]

>even if not  it's just matter to add proper licence to right ports in port
>tree and require user to accept it.

Probably won't even have to do  that. People can download, compile and run whatever they want on a base operating system, but as long as the base operating system (FreeBSD in our case) remains "legally un-encumbered" with patented code, nobody really cares. If individual users decide they want to compile and run copyrighted software on FreeBSD (or linux) it will be a matter between M$ and the particular user in question, not the community providing the base OS and user space tools.

The SCO-IBM  debacle some years ago triggered a huge review of open source copyrights in the linux (and *bsd) community. SCO failed to get anything back then, and it's hard to imagine how M$ will get anything now that  there's broader awareness in "the community" around software patent infringement.


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From: Wojciech Puchar [wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 3:12 PM
To: Traiano Welcome
Cc: jb; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Patent  hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

> FUD. Ignore. They're going the same way as SCO.

even if not  it's just matter to add proper licence to right ports in port
tree and require user to accept it.

>
> T.G.W
>
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] on behalf of jb [jb.1234abcd at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 2:05 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Patent  hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
>
> Hi,
> this should not be ignored; sooner or later things will get nasty ...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/25/microsoft_patent_deal_amdocs/
>
> The sooner FreeBSD gets rid of Linux-based software (apps, tools) in its ports,
> the better. The FB Foundation and Core Team should enact a plan.
> This should actually happen regardless of MS in the shadows and validity of
> their claims.
> jb
>
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