On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:22:41AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:44:51AM +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > >If you know the patent numbers, please send them to me. There are very > >simple methods of routing around patents. Also, the USB-IF is very > >interested in patents that cover USB related things, as they could > >possibly violate the USB-IF agreement that companies are forced to sign > >to join it. > > you might have better contacts than I do. Last time I contacted them > regarding MS problems - at that time, I was complaining that Windows > doesn't fetch all config descriptors - they replied that "other > devices have passed USB Certification, so why can't you?" > > It's too bad when the Specification authority doesn't want to hear > about mis-implementations of their own specification. Anyways... > > Take a look here: > > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/connect/usb/os_desc.mspx > > it doesn't say the patent number but it does say that "Microsoft > agrees to grant a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license > under these copyrights, patents or applications solely to implement > the Microsoft OS Descriptor Specification to interface with (i) a > Microsoft OS Descriptor enabled operating system or (ii) other > systems authorized by Microsoft to retrieve and use this > information, on condition that you agree not to assert any > intellectual property rights against Microsoft or other companies > for their implementation of the Specification." > > We just need to check whether Linux falls into the "other systems > authorized by Microsoft" category. I would guess not :-p It might, now that Microsoft has code in the Linux kernel :) I'll ask around and see what I can find out. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
