systemd patent fees - who pays?

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Subject: systemd patent fees - who pays?
From: Sebastian Feld <sebastian.n.feld@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:40:01 +0100
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Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to
licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian:

SystemD violates a couple of patents SUN Microsystems filed for their
SMF system used in Solaris.

Now, who is going to pay the patent and license fees for each Debian
installation which uses SystemD?

Seb
-- 
Sebastian Feld - IT security expert

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