Red Hat looks out for OSS community with patent settlement

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 06/11/2008 - 22:45

Red Hat announced today that it has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over two patents, including one that covers object-relational database mapping—a technique that is used in Hibernate, a component of the JBoss middleware stack.

Red Hat says that the terms of the settlement will offer broad protection for upstream developers, al


 

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