IEEE1588 patent encumbered -- project needs different leader

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:40:24PM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:

> Sorry to hear that.  I'd be interested to see the information on the
> patent issues if you have links.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556611#c9

I'm not aware of any specific threats or claims against ptpd, but I just
can't put Fedora or Red Hat at risk over it.

John
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