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.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:23:44 +0200, "Ivan Leo Murray-Smith" puoti@inwind.it wrote:
Also, this thread should be on wine-license.
Sorry, but I haven't subscribed to it. I hope this is acceptable. If not I stop posting here in this thread.
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.
But what would that mean for the developers in the US? Just because the sources are hosted in EU would still render them useless for US developers. The only solution I see would be to set up a mirror and create a seperate CVS module for these files. Then the US developers would need to have these files as dummy files where only the function headers are with empty body.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:23:44 +0200 "Ivan Leo Murray-Smith" puoti@inwind.it 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
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:26:53 +0100 Keith Matthews keith_m@sweeney.demon.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:23:44 +0200 "Ivan Leo Murray-Smith" puoti@inwind.it 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
And now I find this one in the wings. http://ipjustice.org/FTAA/whitepaper.shtml
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