True. Patents on Generic methods don't mean much. Since StreamScale was successful in forcing Professor James Plank to disassociate from Jerasure, management of any small enterprise will be reluctant to use it. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/04/2016 20:14, Chandan Kumar Singh wrote: >> Hi >> >> What does the ceph community think of StreamScale's claims on >> Jerasure? Is it possible to use the EC plugin for commercial purposes? >> What is your advice? > > I'd also be interested to know what the community thinks of Symantec patent on "Dynamic distributed data system and method" https://patents.google.com/patent/US6631449B1 and how much of a legal risk it is when doing business with Ceph. I know from experience that asking this question to the best law firm will get me a very expensive answer that can be summarized by "maybe ?". > > My 2cts > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
