On May 6, 2009, "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/05/2009 09:29 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Hopefully the authors got any permission needed from nVidia. But >> there's no evidence of that in the patch, and I don't know for a fact >> that they did. Do you? > Yes. NVIDIA is aware of their usage. Being aware is not quite the same as granting permission for it. Like, a patent holder might be aware of usage of some of their patents, but wait a long time before lauching a patent attack, so that it becomes more difficult for the defendant to stop using the technology. I can see the same strategy would be effective with copyrights. > Red Hat Legal advises that there is no concern here. Could we perhaps get an explicit license from nVidia, and put it in the patch so that people are aware that there's no legal trap being set? Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
