From: Loic Dachary loic@gnu.org
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The embodiments of the present invention described are implemented in a computing platform based on the computer operating system commonly known as 'Linux' that is available as open source directly over the Internet. Linux is also available through various vendors who provide service and support for the Linux operating system. Among these vendors are Red Hat, Inc., of Research Triangle Park, N.C., the assignee of the present invention.
I cannot see that the "inventor" is an RedHat employee, but...
The sourcecode definitely has now been published so it is covered by the GPL. For this reason, the author grants royalty free use by anybody. He cannot earn money from this idea.
BTW: Red Hat in general is not very GPL friendly...
Some time ago, I made a proposal to include some (non-read hat) code covered by GPL. The answer was: We are not allowed to include code that has not been coded by Red Hat employees.
Jörg
EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix