2010/1/21 Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de>:
> This is sad news. I've had a look into the details a bit, but I can't find
> the patent related information.
Someone from intel on the ptpd list offered to help with the
paperwork, so maybe it will work out OK in the end.
> I have always been wondering why it is possible for these iPhone projects to
> include GPLd code and not publish the sources? This seems not juridically
> defendable in the first place.
The code is GPLd but the original authors have agreed to also license
it to apple under different terms. The license doesn't restrict the
original authors, it's their copyright. If someone gives you a patch
to your code under the GPL you can't relicense that though. So RJ are
giving code to the community but are not accepting changes back,
unless it comes with a copyright transfer too. I guess ChucK is in
the same boat (IANAL).
> Let's keep on working hard
> to make it all prior art.
And hope we don't have to spend time and money proving it...
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Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 11:22:05 GMT