Hi all,<br><br>thats a real bummer, so this means we cant make all the Ec code open ? <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard A. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@laptop.org">
richard@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a bump in the road toward a fully open EC codebase.
<br><br>I've learned this week that GoldPeak intends to apply for a patent on<br>their long life NiMH battery charge algorithm.<br><br>OLPC gets a royalty free license to use this technology but we are not<br>going to be allowed to release the detailed charging info on the NiMH
<br>algorithm.<br><br>If they are granted the patent then even if one of you smart gents were<br>to reverse engineer the code we still can't use it.<br><br>Bummer...<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>--<br>Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@laptop.org">
richard@laptop.org</a>><br>One Laptop Per Child<br>_______________________________________________<br>Openec mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Openec@lists.laptop.org">Openec@lists.laptop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/openec">
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