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From: jonathon [mailto:jonathon.bl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:53 PM
To: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: [License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents
All:
Need some help.
Software was privately created.
Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
If you want
On 12/03/15 22:49, Ben Tilly wrote:
I think I can unconfuse you. :-)
You wrote a good synopsis.
The developer knows of an applicable patent,
More than one. Far more than one. :(
therefore suggest that the developer should discuss the situation with
a neutral lawyer, and follow that
On 12/03/15 23:59, ChanMaxthon wrote:
since decades if not centuries ago a prior art already stood there, why would
the patent still be relevant in the first place?
Three magic phrases:
* With a computer;
* Over a Network;
* Using the Internet;
or just shoot their patents down completely.
Developer needs to pay a lawyer, I'm thinking...
On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:52 PM, jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com wrote:
All:
Need some help.
Software was privately created.
Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.
Jonathon Blake scripsit:
Question:
Should developer make any notation about possible patents that the
software _might_ infringe upon?
When it comes to patents, ignorance is bliss, because of the treble
damages for willful violations. All programmers should be on notice
by now that anything
All:
Need some help.
Software was privately created.
Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.
Issue:
Developer is using systems, methods, and techniques that were described
in the literature more than three decades ago (in
, 2015 1:53 PM
To: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: [License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents
All:
Need some help.
Software was privately created.
Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.
Issue
. No negatives.
AS-IS and NO WARRANTY with respect to patents would then be appropriate.
/Larry
-Original Message-
From: jonathon [mailto:jonathon.bl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:53 PM
To: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: [License-discuss] Software
Subject: [License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents
All:
Need some help.
Software was privately created.
Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0.
If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.
Issue:
Developer is using systems, methods, and techniques that were
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