21 Sep
2006
21 Sep
'06
4:31 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:42:50 +0200, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
Today, my friend was told (warned) on the #c++ IRC channel that Boost uses some technologies already patented by IBM (and may be other entities), like RCU or SMR (and may be more). I have no idea if this is true or not, so I'd like to ask some questions regarding this warning:
1. Does Boost use any patented technologies?
I don't know in general. As it concerns RCU and SMR specifically there has been lot of work in the threads area in the latest months, so you should probably grep into the sources (Threads, Asio, etc.). I'd be surprised if just using the OS API (which I think is the case for boost code) were a patent violation, though. -- Genny.