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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Except when it does, which should apply to Jolla if they use an "official" kernel.
The Nokia Press Release states:
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Nokia, therefore, issues the legally binding Patent Statement, which has been posted on its website at www.nokia.com/iprstatements.
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Which is great apart from the fact that the actual link throws up a Page Not Found error.

Edit: Google filed a complaint with EU over Nokia's patent trolling, and included a link to an archived copy of the doc.

Edit 2: Reading the actual statement Patents are defined as:
"Patent"
means any such claims, including without limitation, method and product claims, of any and all patents and patent applications with a priority date of 31 December 2005 or earlier, now owned or hereafter acquired by Nokia, which are infringed by any Linux Kernel that exists as of 25 May 2005 or by any functionality embodied in any future Linux Kernel to the extent that Nokia has not declared as described hereinabove such functionality to be outside the scope of this Patent Statement. For the avoidance of doubt, Patent shall not include any claims for enabling technologies that are not themselves embodied in the Linux Kernel (e.g., without limitation, hardware or semiconductor manufacturing technology as such).
So any patents filed over the last 7 years aren't covered by the statement, unless it was updated at some point.

Last edited by mrsellout; 2012-07-11 at 16:09.