I agree it all depends on if your app makes money. If they see something that makes money they will come after you if you violate a Patent. In my case I did my homework and found out now before my app goes out that someone holds a patent on any case when someone takes any graphic of any image that represents a head and places it on graphic of anything that represents a body. Like JibJab does. If you look at the legal part of their JibJab's web site they have to pay pixfusion a license fee (at the very bottom).
http://sendables.jibjab.com/about/legal Which is what my app is going to do (take a head and place it on a body). I wrote pixfusion two emails asking about licenses fee's and what I was developing but I never heard back. So I'll keep the emails that I wrote and if (by chance) my app does get a little popular and I do hear from them then I will have proof that I tried contacting them and I was proactive. For any developers out there reading this do a little "googling" on any major features of your app and just aware that there are MANY patents out there. Where if your app takes off you could get an email from some BS company saying you have to pay them licenses fees and/or a cease and desist order like K05tik got. There is nothing worse for a developer then spending hours of time developing and coding something just to find out that they have to stop publishing it. Thanks -Chris On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:15 AM, ko5tik <kpriblo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In today society everybody can sue you for almost anything at any > time > ( we live in kind of free countries, in unfree countrys you will be > just thrown to jail ) > in case of tetris applet they claimed copyright on 4-block tiles ;) > ( which were used in a books back in 70ies ) > > Software patents do suck, as well as actual copyright laws ( for > example in germany, > EUR 0.06 per blank CD goes straight to GEMA , as well as EUR 30 on > every new > PC sold, and they still claim that you download music illegally) - > so please support your > local pirate party. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
