FatELF & patents

From: Rayson Ho
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 11:50:56 EST

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Just a heads up...

Apple (NeXT) patented the technologies behind universal binaries:

"Method and apparatus for architecture independent executable files"

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MQQnAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=b3wiAAAAEBAJ

(Patent 5432937, 5604905)

Rayson
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