Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bbn.com!nic!kira!kira!tree From: tree@newton.uvm.edu (Tom Emerson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: AT&T Claims patent on part of MIT's X11 server. Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 13:35:44 GMT References: <1991Feb25.154715.9834@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Feb28.154254.1854@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: Division of EMBA, University of Vermont Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov's message of 28 Feb 91 15:42:54 GMT Raymond-Protection: enabled >>>>> On 28 Feb 91 15:42:54 GMT, kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) said: [stuff deleted.] Kaleb> My reference to the LABEL file was merely to point out that there is Kaleb> a large amount of copyrighted and patented work within the X distribution. I still feel that just giving the Death Star credit in the LABEL file is not the same as paying a license to use a particular patent. The LABEL protects from possible legal action in regards to copyright infringement, but not against patent infringement. It would not hinder AT&T at all if they did decide to press the issue in the courts. Tom -- Tom Emerson ________________ Student Systems Programmer - EMBA Computer Facility / /_) /_ /_ University of Vermont / / \ /__ /__ tree@newton.uvm.edu What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?