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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:14:37 -0400 From: Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu> To: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 In message <20080413033344.GA27494@...h.localnet>, Bob Copeland writes: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:03:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: [...] > > Who did the reverse-engineering, and how was it done? > > Please make us confident that we won't get our butts sued off or something. > > I'm not sure there's a company to sue anymore. <IANAL> Bob, you have to be careful there; an argument like "there may not be a company to sue" may not hold. IP rights, patents and their filings, and more, can be sold, traded, transferred, inherited, etc. -- even if the original company is no longer in business. I don't know the history of ReplayTV or how it went out of business, but it might be worth a check to see if there's anyone who can still claim any rights over any part of OMFS (e.g., chapter 11 creditors who may feel they didn't get fully compensated). The irony is that as long as omfs gets little attention, no one is likely to sue; but once and if it gets into mainline and lots of Big Name Linux distros start carrying it, *then* someone may come out from the shadows to sue. </IANAL> Erez. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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