Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

[Alexander Terekhov]

Rick wrote:
[...]
> Red Hats says ..."We wanted broad provisions that covered OUR CUSTOMERS,
> who place trust in us, and the open source community"

Customers aside, the open source community is protected under the deal
to the extent that community can safely donate code that Red Hat
includes in its *branded* products (upstream developers won't be sued by
Amphion and its subsidiaries for releasing predecessor code), but I 
really doubt that open source community as a whole (LOL) can possibly 
succeed in negotiating a trademark license with Red Hat to become a 
downstream distributor of its branded products. See
http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf

regards,
alexander.

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