RE: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 6:06 PM

> 
> 
> Hard.  The problem is that the relevant patents, although they
> probably have "fair and nondiscriminatory" licensing terms, will be
> *royalty* based, ie, pay the FAND royalty for every copy that your
> clients make.  This automatically means it cannot be distributed under
> GPLv3, and probably not GPLv2 either, unless the fund can come to
> terms with the licensor about how many copies this means, *and* pay
> for all the free riders.
> 

How many players currently exist though that work properly
and are legal to posess and use in most countries?

-- 
Ken