Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Of course they are not holding onto the patent for monetary
reasons. I think they are doing it as a leverage (one of
many) against open source software.
Sender-ID is a stopgap for cryptographic authentication. It is not a
control patent. The hysteria that surrounds it is completely
unjustified.
What hysteria?
What is really going on here is that the lawyers for open source have
been unable to persuade the lawyers for the corporations that the
reciprocity terms in the GPL are enforceable. There is no case law that
is convincing on the issue [...]
Not in the USA, perhaps.