8 Sep
2003
8 Sep
'03
9:09 a.m.
we are a non-for -profit ISP based in the UK and at the moment we are
discussing the software patents issue. Does anyone know what legal
implications it would have to host projects which are protected by
patents? Any reports from the US about cases?
Thanks
Michael
Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
Hello. I picked the text below from xine-devel, but I
picked it too
late. If this topic has been discussed here, I have missed the thing.
If Europe gets the software patents, I'm willing to archive
any withdrawn software to our archive site ftp.funet.fi.
There they may wait another 20 years for reappearence.
What to do if Europe gets the software patents and your
software is requested to be taken away from public?
How far one should go in order to get the case officially
reported? At least, one should not take anything away
upon an e-mail request as then nothing is officially reported.
It is important to get the cases reported each time so that
the cases can be analysed later by the researchers.
Juhana