IEEE1588 patent encumbered -- project needs different leader

[George Neville-Neil]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 07:33 , John W. Linville wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>> On Mi, 2010-01-20 at 19:12 +0000, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> Perhaps the patent holders aren't interested in
>>> enforcing them against ptpd users, but I'm just not interested enough
>>> to track-down all the paperwork to prove that (if it is even true).
>> 
>> Intel could help with that kind of paperwork. We have a representative
>> at the 1588 standards committee who knows the relevant patent owners. Of
>> course, as always with patents, there's not going to be any kind of
>> certainty that there are no unknown patents lurking which might be
>> claimed later on.
>> 
>> I suppose it is too late for that now, is it?
> 
> It's probably worth figuring-out if ptpd is at risk or not.  There are
> definitely people interested in running it.

Yes, I think it would be worthwhile to find this out.  Let me know if I can
help in any way. I rather doubt our one lawyer at my dayjob would be able to
help but if Intel can, that'd be great.

Thanks,
George