Re: FatELF & patents
From: Anton D. Kachalov
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 12:01:15 EST
Rayson Ho wrote:
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)
Hmm... looks like patents talks about objects that stored in one file
with arch-independent header.
My implementation (that is differ to Ryan's) do not use any headers
except ELF header and just 3 bytes in it to store next location. So,
it's patent clear.
PS. Patents is evil. This is very common way to store different arch
binaries...
Rgds,
Anton
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