On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:24:45PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
One of the terrible effect of software patents is that nobody knows if
his program infringe some of them in some country. And, as you said, i
think it's impossible to be completely patent-free as things stand now.
However
The existing European software patents were granted based on the
assumption that you can differentiate between a computer program and
its underlying ideas. I think such a distinction is indeed possible,
and granting theese patents does not contradict Article 52. But I
strongly believe
if they are enforcable in court. Regarding many multimedia related
software, there is indeed an ugly lot of software patents around, and it
is very unclear if they would succeed in court if somebody would
distribute software which implement ideas described by a patent.
I don't think debian has
Reinhard Tartler wrote:
I don't think debian has decided on a more or less 'official' position
regarding software patents. There many packages in debian, which are
suspected to implement many ideas described by software patents. I don't
know of any case were debian had to explain in court
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
I am for the radical way, to keep Debian completely free, libre.
If I'm understanding you correctly on this (i.e. remove from Debian
every software which has parts covered by software patents), this is
a complete nonsense
Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Only if they are enforcable in court. Regarding many multimedia related
software, there is indeed an ugly lot of software patents around, and it
is very unclear if they would succeed in court if somebody would
distribute software which implement ideas described
I claim not being expert on this subject. But this argument seems
rehash of ones done in debian-legal and debian-user.
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
...
Remaining on the multimedia side, if mp3 is covered by numerous patents
that implementing a codec cannot
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
I am for the radical way, to keep Debian completely free, libre.
If I'm understanding you correctly on this (i.e. remove from Debian
every software which has parts covered by software patents
Le Thursday 20 October 2005 à 09:24:52, Sven Luther a écrit:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:13:34AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Pour ceux qui ne lisent pas -devel.
Cette info est peut-être déjà passée sur -user-french. Si c'est le
cas, désolé.
Ouais bof, il faut voter pour plein
it on to other user
group mailing lists etc.
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Dear Supporters of NoSoftwarePatents.com,
On 6 July 2005, the European Parliament rejected a proposal to legalise
software patents in Europe. However, our fight continues.
There is now a public Internet poll in which you
Hi fellows,
What do you think about setting a sign [1]against Software Patents on
our website? I think the time has come to get more active against software
patents. Due to the directive validating Software Patents that will be
voted this 1st September at the European Parliament, we have
.)
So, who else should decide if there will be something done against
software patents at the Debian website if not the DDs themselves?
against software patents _and_ spam,
Daniel
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* Daniel K. Gebhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 13:50]:
What do you think about setting a sign [1]against Software Patents on
our website? I think the time has come to get more active against software
patents. Due to the directive validating Software Patents that will be
voted this 1st
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:10 +0200
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SPAM doesn't get better if done for a good thing.
(That doesn't stop me of writing letters to Members of European
Parliament e.g., but your mail is absolutly misdirected at d-d.)
Software patents do restrict what
misdirected at d-d.)
Software patents do restrict what debian can distribute, this list is
I know, I'm just massivly fighting with them in one package. It's
definitly no fun.
for people interested in developing and distributing software.
The mail is relavent to the members of the list, and non
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:35:31PM +0200, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote:
What do you think about setting a sign [1]against Software Patents on
our website?
Argh, I should have know that there'll be someone who would misuse
debian-devel for this. See -project!
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