Re: [gNewSense-users] FTL patent in kernel

[Paul O'Malley]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May  7, 2008, Bake Timmons <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > The nasty effect of
> > the patent note applies as well to any other file as it does to ftl.c.
> > E.g., if I modified Emacs to use FTL format for non-PCMCIA
> > applications, my code could possibly be infringing and thus possibly
> > be non-free.  Am I missing anything here?

we take the position that we don't take a position - s/ware patents 
cover so much that you could not write a program - the system needs changing

P.