I think I can clear this up. The patent office rejected SRI's patent application, therefore there are no valid claims that could prevent ISATAP from being included in public domain software releases. Indeed, Microsoft, cisco, and FreeBSD/KAME are shipping ISATAP and have been doing so for a long time, and I believe there are also several others.
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: David Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:54 PM > To: Pekka Savola > Cc: David Miller; Templin, Fred L; netdev@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support > > > give it away on this specific instance. I'm not sure if you should > > attribute to hidden agendas what you can explain by "doing > the right > > thing" (granted, very few companies do this which may make > it suspect, > > but still..). > > Pekka, > I'm not assuming hidden agendas here; I simply don't know what > they mean by "no license for implementers." It doesn't say they > relinquish *all* licensing, which would be clearer if that's what they > mean. If implementers, distributors, and users are included, then > who's left that does need licensing? If that answer really is nobody, > then why bother with "for implementers."? > So, I don't think it's a hidden agenda, I think they said what > they mean. I just don't know what they mean. :-) > > +-DLS > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
