Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - Re: OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

[Kevin Davis]

> 
> On 09/10/2015 08:14 PM, Kevin Davis wrote:
> >>
> > Ah.  I wasn't in the room when they figured it out.  And I've never seen
> their written opinion.  Is it documented somewhere?
> 
> which in turn leads to this FAQ:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20121116185559/http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/
> 26/314
> 
> So reading between the lines, IBM's opinion was that implementing a
> workaround that operates FAT in such a way that it never uses a common
> namespace was sufficient to avoid any legal questions about whether that
> code conflicts with a patent on a common namespace, sidestepping the
> longer question of any legal battle over the patent itself.
> 

Of course I have no comment on the legal opinion other than it is interesting 
and nice to have a pointer to it.

Thanks for the pointers

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