[Consortium] Linuxaudio.org Management Board

[Dave Phillips]

For the US :

    http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2004jan01.htm

Best,

dp




iriXx wrote:

> yeah, actually Jan, you're right. i dont see the need for such a 
> clause either, because the law will cover you regardless of whether 
> you use the GPL or a regular copyright. the GPL was very cleverly 
> built on top of copyright law and is legally binding - i believe the 
> MySQL case tested it in court too.
>
> patents are a different matter, i'm not sure we can preclude the 
> possibility that people might patent something, except that you'd have 
> to be on the lookout for a member with $25000 to spare. i believe 
> thats what it costs to register a patent?....
>
> hth
>
> m~
>
> Jan Depner wrote:
>
>>     I agree that many organizations can't/won't sign up to that
>> restriction.  I would think that we're probably only talking about
>> copyright infringement (including GPL issues), and patent 
>> infringement. Copyright infringement shouldn't be an issue for a 
>> company using
>> proprietary code since we won't be seeing it anyway so we won't be
>> copying it.  GPLed code could be used by a company that doesn't disclose
>> the source but, again, how would we know?  The only real problem I can
>> see arising would be submarine patents.  Those of us developing Open
>> Source code probably won't be filing patents ;-)  Are these the only
>> issues or am I missing something?
>>
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:36, jaromil wrote:
>>  
>>
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>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:41PM +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
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>>>
>>>>> "Members of the Linuxaudio.org consortium agree not to sue other
>>>>> members, or otherwise instigate prosecutions of members, following a
>>>>> dispute over reverse engineering."
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> Two comments as input for your discussion:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Currently nothing prevents a member to leave the consortium to be
>>>> able sue a (former) member. If a significant amount of money is
>>>> involved this could happen. In practice this clause therefore does not
>>>> seem to have a binding effect.
>>>>
>>>> 2. It is very unlikely that any company lawyer (that is: big
>>>> companies) would agree to such a condition.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> yes ok, but if we cannot even agree to not sue each other, why to be
>>> part of a consortium anyway? :))
>>>
>>> - -- jaromil,  dyne.org rasta coder,  http://rastasoft.org
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