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4retire --- I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts, and the thoughts of others with familiarity in this area about something:

If you look at the chart in the MaxD letter to its shareholders, Trumax seems to be in "VSL VP 9". I assume they are referring to the free coding format developed (purportedly) by Google, and they are calling it "VSL" VP 9 because of the position they are taking that VP 9 infringes the Vedanti patents which were to be held by VSL, and in turned licenced to MaxD.

There is an asterisk indicating that there is a proprietary algorithm which encodes. (Before LW jumps, let's agree that chances are this algorithm is what Tmmi is talking about when it says it has filed a provisional application, and also what GC was discussing in the Philadelphia story. We can put aside for the moment the important questions of whether MaxD and Tmmi have come to an actual arrangement over use, or why reference to Tmmi was deleted, or the extent of participation in the development.)

If Tmmi is no longer using the VDK license to develop code, does this mean do you think that the new proprietary algorithm is an addendum to open source VP 9, rather than something that can stand alone? If so, how would the world change if VP 9 were found to infringe the optimal data transmission Vedanti patent, and therefore now no longer open source? Could it mean for example that reciprocal licences would have to be granted?