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Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?



Le 28/03/2014 11:40, Sebastian Feld a écrit :
> 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
No one in Europe. There's no such thing as software patent here. Yet. I
hope this will stay forever.
(And yes, maybe I'm wrong, but please enlighten me!)

Adrien


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