On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:08 PM, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
robert burrell donkin wrote:
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i think you'd need to ask an IPR lawyer this.we've see numerous cases recently about companies sitting on IPR and then suddenly demanding money as soon as the technology has been widely adopted."A" license? What does this mean, that Apache has a license but all users of it need to ask for one too? %-|
these murky waters are muddied even further given the recent court win for rambus (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/29102.html).
maybe apache should make sure that they can get hold of a license for this technology before accepting this project.
the way i see it (but i'm not a lawyer)...
if rsa really is offering these IP rights royalty free then apache should be able to obtain a license. i suppose whether users will need to ask RSA for a license will depend on the nature of the license under which these rights are offered. if apache can't obtain a license then not only does the ASF risk being sued but it's also clear that (some) users will have difficulties legally using the software we produce.
maybe someone at the ASF needs to approach RSA officially and find out what their position is.
- robert
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