Bruce Perens writes "Red Hat has settled patent suits with Firestar Software, Inc., Amphion, and Datatern on a patent covering the Object-Relational Database Model, which those companies asserted was used in the jBoss Hibernate package — not in Red Hat Linux.
The settlement is said to protect upstream developers and derivative works of the upstream software, thus protecting the overall Open Source community.
Full terms of the settlement and patent licenses are not available at this time."
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