Hi,
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:44:08PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
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Please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell them
something like this (please elaborate - everyone discounts
rubber-stamp comments):
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Approve of draft policy - disapprove of
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:44:08PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
The code that makes use of the patented principle must be under the
MIT license, which allows a scope-limited patent license.
You are asking us to support a proposal that goes against point 6 of
the Debian Free Software
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On 2002.12.31 13:44 Bruce Perens wrote:
There's a long discussion below. I'm asking you to do something once
you
read that discussion: Please write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and tell them something like this (please elaborate - everyone
discounts
To All Members of the Free Software and Open Source Community,
For the past two years, I've been working on the W3C patent policy on
your behalf, to make it safe for Free Software to implement W3C standards.
Now, I'm worried that we could lose that fight, not because of the patent
holders, but
Bruce,
I understand your argument, but I have also read the FSF's argument at:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html
If, as you say, the holders of patents took their toys to play elsewhere rather
than participating in the W3C standards process, this might actually have some
benefit.
Bruce,
Numerous people have posted to the slashdot discussion comments that complain
that the W3C comment submission software is rejecting their comments because
clicking the validation link in the confirmation email doesn't work. It
appears to be a bug in the W3C's mail server software. You
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