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Strictly speaking, the UC System is the state. That IBM funded some of RISC-V doesn’t make RISC-V a capitalist product nor does TSMC manufacturing some silicon.
by CalChris 9y ago
Strictly speaking, the UC System is the state. That IBM funded some of RISC-V doesn’t make RISC-V a capitalist product nor does TSMC manufacturing some silicon. The US Government and the University of California can claim intellectual property rights including patents, copyrights and trademarks. That SiFive is incorporated to exploit RISC-V as was Sun Microsystems to exploit 4.2 changes nothing.
- microcolonel 9y agoThe U.S. government can not claim copy rights on work produced by government employees. Read the statute before commenting on it, especially if you're using it as a point of disagreement. The one way the U.S. government can come to own copy rights is by purchasing them from original rights holders. No copy right exists for any work of a U.S. government employee.
- CalChris 9y agoYou may wish to read 15 USC § 290e. There are other exceptions.