On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:45:37AM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > W dniu 30.04.2014 18:24, Felipe Balbi pisze: > >On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:17:11AM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > >>There is a custom (non-USB IF) extension to the USB standard: > >> > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/gg463182 > >> > > > >are you sure there isn't some crappy patent from MS which would prevent > >us from implementing this ? > > > > Under the link mentioned above there is a scrollable area under the heading > "Please read the license agreement before continuing". > In the said "license agreement" there is Section 2, "GRANT OF LICENSE", > where letter (b) reads: > > "Patent license. Microsoft hereby grants to You a nonexclusive, > royalty-free, nontransferable, worldwide license under Microsoft’s > patents embodied solely within the Specification and that are owned > or licensable by Microsoft to make, use, import, offer to sell, > sell and distribute directly or indirectly to Your Licensees > Your Implementation. You may sublicense this patent license > to Your Licensees under the same terms and conditions." > > I am not a native speaker nor a lawyer, but it seems to me that > they do grant a royalty-free license to their patents used in the > specification, for the purpose of (among others) making > "Our Implementation" and distributing it to "Our Licensees". > And "We" do have "Our Licensees", who are anyone using Linux - > anyone using Linux agrees to the GPL. If you send us a patch with a Signed-off-by: with your name and email address on it, that's all that matters, so this should be fine. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
