Re: S3 texture compression patent

[Keith Matthews]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:23:44 +0200
"Ivan Leo Murray-Smith"  wrote:
> > Is it a patent for a hrdware solution, or for software? If software then in
> > Europe, at least in Germany and others, it wouldn't matter because
> > softwarepatents are not possible (and hopefully never will).
>
> Software patents are illegal in all the EU, and it will stay like that thanks to
> the latest copyright directive, the EUCD.
> Also, this thread should be on wine-license.
> It wouldn't be hard to host wine in the EU, codeweavers can just get some host
> space from any EU hoster, and set up and publish remotely.

You've not been following the developments properly. See http://www.ffii.org.uk/council.html