[Fsfe-ie] Nokia, patents and the EU directive

[Malcolm Tyrrell]

>   "The Patent Statement applies to Nokia's patents infringed by
>   current official releases of the Linux Kernel and all future
>   official releases of the Linux Kernel to the extent that Nokia has
>   not declared new functionality embodied in such releases to be
>   outside the scope of the Patent Statement."

That implies that Linux currently infringes some of Nokia patents. Is this
likely to be true?

Malcohol.

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