Re: business models [was patent stuff]

Jonathan Corbet (corbet-lk@lwn.net)
Wed, 29 May 2002 08:13:00 -0600


Alan said:

> I would worry much more about the million odd patents IBM have, where
> IBM have no general statement of this nature than the Red Hat ones.
> Perhaps once the Red Hat statement is published IBM can be persuaded to
> show willing ?

For what it's worth, the Red Hat statement is at:

http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html

No patent enforcement against you if you're using a Red Hat-approved open
source license - their list does not include BSD.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net
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