Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] LAT

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:50:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Hmm, I wonder whether just decoding a patented network protocol violates
the patent. Personally I don't think so, but then, I live in Germany :-)
Btw: The situation is the same with Cisco's ISL and we decode that.

 Ciao
    Joerg

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
> although "Don't tell" might be appropriate given that at least part of
> LAT is patented, as per
> 
> 	http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/DECnet/PhaseIV/
> 
> which says:
> 
> 	At the same time that DECnet Phase IV was released, Digital
> 	introduced a new LAN based protocol for terminal access called
> 	LAT (Local Area Terminal).  This protocol was revolutionary and
> 	Digital was awarded a patent for it.  LAT remains to this day a
> 	proprietary protocol for which specifications are not available
> 	without license.
> 
> (If this is a software patent, it might not be an issue outside the US,
> but....)

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