[p2p-hackers] Online Codes

[Nick Johnson]

On 15/02/2005, at 10:52 PM, Michael Parker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know what happened to the "Online Codes" Sourceforge 
> project, listed at http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinecodes? I'm 
> asking here for two reasons: First, because Online Codes [1, 2] would 
> be a great tool in peer-to-peer applications, so I thought someone 
> here might have followed the project while it was still active. 
> Second, I've written a solid library implementation of the Online 
> Codes encoding/decoding algorithm described in the aforementioned 
> papers. Alas, only after I implemented it did I find out that the 
> authors' company, Rateless, had patented it (or, so they allude to on 
> their web site www.rateless.com, Digital Fountain owned the IP).

I don't see it - where do they allude to it?
The only mention of patents google finds on the site is in the copy of 
the GPL they have hosted there.

-Nick Johnson