On Thursday 08 April 2010, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > This is one of the strange consequences of the common law > system. In the rest of the world, where civil law is > applied, ignorance of the delinquent does not diminish the > forfeit. >
It isn't law that you could be ignorant of. It's a "work". If you know about the "work" and do something like it, they have a strong case that yours is influenced by theirs. If you don't know about something, you can't copy it, and you are in a stronger position to defend that you did it independently. It's not just patents .. It applies wherever there is "intelectual property", such as trade secrets. Signing a non-disclosure agreement is dangerous in a similar way. The EDA business is small and tight. If any EDA company were to attack gEDA, the biggest impact would be in publicity (negative for them, positive for us). I don't feel threatened. Hey, Synopsys, come and get me. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
