Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 17:59 -0500, mreuther@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There was a recent lawsuit, settled before judgement, in the USA over 
> the ownership of a GPL program that implemented a copyrighted standard. 

The document (as such) containing the standard is copyrighted.
But this has nothing to do with: "I read the standard somewhere somehow
and implement it in some piece of GPLed software."
What do you exactly really mean?

> The name of the case was Drew Technologies v. Society of Automotive 
> Engineers.

URL?

	Bernd
-- 
Firmix Software GmbH                   http://www.firmix.at/
mobil: +43 664 4416156                 fax: +43 1 7890849-55
          Embedded Linux Development and Services



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/