[Fsfe-ie] Nokia, patents and the EU directive

[Glenn Strong]

On Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 16:39 +0100, Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
> 
> >   "The Patent Statement applies to Nokia's patents infringed by
> >   current official releases of the Linux Kernel and all future
> >   official releases of the Linux Kernel to the extent that Nokia has
> >   not declared new functionality embodied in such releases to be
> >   outside the scope of the Patent Statement."
> 
> That implies that Linux currently infringes some of Nokia patents. Is this
> likely to be true?

It's hard to say - there's no list at the Nokia site of the specific
patents they might be thinking of.

The announcement could certainly be read as applying to any patents
that may currently be infringed, if there are any -- Nokia might not
even have compiled a list (it would be a lot of work to check, I
suspect, particularly if they hold patents with very broad claims).
 
-- 
Glenn Strong