Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:34:23 +0100
Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:

> Around 05:28pm on Sunday, July 08, 2007 (UK time), Les Mikesell scrawled:
> 
> > Which still leaves open the question of how many times you have to pay 
> > to license the same patent for the same device, or whether you can 
> > rearrange the bits in one licensed program?
> 
> Never!  As a user you do not buy a licence for the patent - you would
> only do that if you were going to manufacturei (code)  and distribute
> something that uses the patented process. 

Or use it. Usage is sufficient in the USSA.

In the case of a product there is other law which requires the seller of
a product (in the usual sense) to end consumers is obliged to ensure that
they are licensed the appropriate patents they need with the product.