Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Jul 8 18:42:59 UTC 2007


> Which still leaves open the question of how many times you have to pay 
> to license the same patent for the same device, or whether you can 

Typically each time you buy a device indirectly (and you also pay
indirectly for the patent office through taxes, the cost of patent
lawsuits through product prices, insurance against patent lawsuits
again through product prices) etc.

> rearrange the bits in one licensed program?

Don't know. Ask a patent lawyer




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