Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric S Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >> isomorphic > to the "commercial/noncommercial" problem.  The
    >> really nasty cases are > near service libraries.
    >> 
    >> Maybe you should spell this out.
    >> 
    >> For example, service libraries need not be a problem.  Consider a
    >> service library which infringes a patent on SIP, which is to be
    >> restricted to interoperability with the SIP protocol.  There is
    >> no issue if the service library is only useful with SIP, because
    >> all the use cases of the service library (excluding looking at
    >> the code and taking away the code) would be OK by the policy.
    >> 
    >> Obviously, there is a problem if a patent claims to invent
    >> something commonplace such as 'xml', and grants its use only for
    >> the purpose of IETF standards or a specific standard.  But I'm
    >> not sure if I recall something like that.

    Eric> What happens when I want to re-use (say) a hash function from
    Eric> a library with patent coverage and an area-of-application rule
    Eric> on the patent license?  -- <a
  
  To add more meat to the example.

  Assume that the service library is in fact for HTTP, and it the patent
related to use of MD5 in basic-authentication. 

  Assume that Eric now wishes to *reuse* this library to implement
something similar as SIP.

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