On Jul 19, 2008, Steve Underwood <steveu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:55:18 -0700 (PDT) >> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> They(FreeBSD) should be protected, the users can get the ports from >>> source, they do not ship binaries(except the installation *.tbz >>> files). >> That makes no difference to US patent law. > Its the same with anyone else's patent law, too. Shipping things as a > kit of parts never successfully circumvented any patent laws. But what about shipping only software, rather than computer systems? Wasn't there a recent court ruling favorable to a software distributor defendant? AT&T vs Microsoft, Supreme Court, IIRC. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
