On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:26 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > There is a substantial difference: None of us has control over Core, but > > anybody being actively involved into FE, packaging packages for FE or > > using such packages could potentially be subject to legal action. > > Anyone could *perhaps* commit an offense in the United States and their > friends in North America. I assume you are Germany-based Ralf, so software > patents, as you know, were turned down by the European parliament. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention#Enforceability_before_national_courts To quote a part: "In Germany in the case Logikverifikation (December 13, 1999), the German Federal Court (German: Bundesgerichtshof or BGH) ruled on a case involving a European patent claiming a computer-implemented invention, namely a "method for hierarchical logic verification of highly-integrated circuits". Going against the run of previous case law, it overruled the German Federal Patent Court (German: Bundespatentgericht or BPatG), and came to the conclusion that the claimed subject-matter did properly meet the 'technical' requirement, was not excluded from patentability and therefore the patent should be allowed." roozbeh -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
