Hi, First of all, I wish you all a happy new year. I saw in the Brazilian Fedora magazine [1] that Apple had patented its Dock application. The magazine says that the patent covers « positioning of icons and cursors, as well as the zoom effect when the mouse moves over an icon ». The actual text of the patent [2] is: """ Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. To provide greater access and consolidation to frequently used items in the graphical user interface, a userbar is established which includes a plurality of item representations. To permit a greater number of items to reside in the userbar, a magnification function can be provided which magnifies items within the userbar when they are proximate the cursor associated with the graphical user interface. """ Is the legal team aware of this issue ? What's gonna happen about those dock-like applications in the Fedora repositories, given the Fedora policy on patented software ? Regards, [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-December/msg00240.html [2] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177 ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) French Fedora Ambassador ---------- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
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