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 that
Chris Walters wrote:
Software code can be copyrighted, but that is an easy thing to get
around - even if you got your original idea from some copyrighted code.
Patents are not easy to get around. They totally protect all
implementations of the procedures used to do x (whatever x is).
Only
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. This
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. It will
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 by a
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:
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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), this is
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