Re: FatELF & patents

[Anton D. Kachalov]

Rayson Ho wrote:
> Just a heads up...
>
> Apple (NeXT) patented the technologies behind universal binaries:
>
> "Method and apparatus for architecture independent executable files"
>
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MQQnAAAAEBAJ
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=b3wiAAAAEBAJ
>
> (Patent 5432937, 5604905)
>   
Hmm... looks like patents talks about objects that stored in one file 
with arch-independent header.
My implementation (that is differ to Ryan's) do not use any headers 
except ELF header and just 3 bytes in it to store next location. So, 
it's patent clear.

PS. Patents is evil. This is very common way to store different arch 
binaries...

Rgds,
Anton
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