On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:52:58PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > PS: et on n'a pas parlé de brevets logiciels, ou de droits > annexes, qui s'ajoutent au copyright dans les limitations > de ce que peut faire un développeur. Désolé!
Nous avons mentionné ici les brevets logiciels, ainsi que le rôle nouveau de Microsoft dans le monde du libre depuis quelques temps. Le problème des brevets est réel, et voici ce que la FSFE écrit dans sa newsletter[1]. En résumé: après avoir utilisé les brevets pour mettre des bâtons dans les roues de ses concurrents, y compris en logiciel libre, Microsoft a maintenant rejoint deux organisations de lutte contre les abus des brevets, dont une organisation du monde GNU/Linux qui tente de résoudre les problèmes et lutte contre les brevets logiciels et la FSF(E) lui demandent d'être cohérent jusqu'au bout. == Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network == Historically, Microsoft has used software patents to slow down Free Software adoption in businesses and public administration, by claiming patent infringement of important Free Software components and taking billions of dollars from Free Software re-distributors. In recent years, however, Microsoft approached themselves more and more with the Free Software community. In October, this led to Microsoft's next big step to join the LOT Network and the Open Invention Network (OIN), two organisations that aim to solve problems created by software patents towards the GNU/Linux systems. LOT works to protect members against so called "non-practicing entities", while the OIN wants to protect a defined set of Free Software technologies from patent litigation, defined in their so-called "Linux system definition" [1]. The FSFE welcomes Microsoft's steps, and encourages them to continue in this direction [2]. The FSFE aligns with our sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in their demand [3] that useful next steps should make a clear, unambiguous statement that Microsoft has ceased all patent infringement claims on the use of Linux in Android: to expand the list of packages protected from patents inside the definition of "Linux System", to include every Free Software component found in a GNU/Linux system, and to use the past patent royalties, extorted from Free Software, to fund the effective abolition of all patents covering ideas in software. [1] https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201810.fr.html _______________________________________________ gull mailing list [email protected] http://forum.linux-gull.ch/mailman/listinfo/gull
