RMS Seeks Anti-Patent Information 8
SubtleNuance asks: "Free Software's venerable leader has made an open appeal to the Internet community. RMS seeks information about instances where Free Software projects were impeded by a software patent. You can read his open letter at Linux Today. RMS specifically seeks 'cases where a free
program has been withdrawn from use or interfered with'. Surely the /. community can come up with a few examples to aid Mr. Stallman's arguments. Parties with specific information are to send an e-mail to patent-examples@gnu.org "
Thoughts (Score:3)
GIF encoders/decoders
MP3 encoders (are decoders covered?)
RSA encryption (expired, but that's besides the point)
DeCSS probably doesn't fit, as it wasn't a patent.
Is CueCat patented? Probably not.
-Mark
front page material? (Score:2)
why would you omit this from the Front page Cliff?
Re:Thoughts (Score:2)
Digital Convergence has licensed and is defending NeoMedia's patents:
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06108656__
Automatic access of electronic information through machine-readable codes on printed documents
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05933829__
Automatic access of electronic information through secure machine-readable codes on printed documents
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ogg vorbis. (Score:1)
Re:Thoughts - GIF encoders (Score:1)
RSA patent (Score:3)
For a long while, the RSA patent was also an obstacle to GnuPG, OpenSSH, and just about everything else out there that needed public-key crypto. The expiry of the Diffie-Hellman patent (in 1997) helped some, but there were still a lot of obstacles.
Re:Thoughts (Score:2)
And you're right, DeCSS doesn't fit.
patents and non-profit... (Score:1)