From patchwork Mon Oct 29 17:35:10 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [5/9] README: Update IPR disclaimer Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:35:10 -0000 From: Chuck Lever X-Patchwork-Id: 195086 Message-Id: <20121029173509.53098.99466.stgit@seurat.1015granger.net> To: fedfs-utils-devel@oss.oracle.com Both IPR disclaimers have now been released. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever --- README | 11 ++++++----- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index e7303b4..7a4ff9d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -49,16 +49,17 @@ See also IPR disclosure 1362 (http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1362) which discloses coverage of the FedFS NSDB architecture by US Patent #5,842,214: "Distributed file system providing a unified name space with efficient name resolution," filed by Microsoft Corporation on -September 24, 1997 but never assigned. +September 24, 1997 but never assigned. Microsoft has released the +patent via a Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory Licence +to All Implementers. See also IPR disclosure 1634 (http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1634) which discloses coverage of technology in this package by US Patent #7,933,921: "Referent-controlled location resolution of resources in a federated distributed system," filed on November 29, 2006 and assigned -to NetApp on April 26, 2011. NetApp has publicly stated its intent to -release the patent via a Royalty-Free, Reasonable and -Non-discriminatory Licence to All Implementers, via the usual IETF -process. +to NetApp on April 26, 2011. NetApp has released the patent via a +Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory Licence to All +Implementers. Package Synopsis