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Salut,

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:01:34AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Hum, how do other open source projects (Linux) handle the situation?

Not yet.

Linux is subject to 287 software patents as far as we know, and they didn't
deal with it yet, I guess they're waiting for the results of the discussion
on the EU patent directive.

However, some stuff, as we know, is in a non-US category currently. MPlayer
for example. But in the kernel this would be a bit difficult. We might
only introduce a config flag that's disabled by default, or something.

But then again I guess it's far from bein the only patent infringement in
the NetBSD kernel, I see a lot of "!=" operators for example...

				Tonnerre

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