Terry Reedy wrote:
"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I believe our current policy is that the author warrants that the code
is his/her own work and not encumbered by any patent.
Without a qualifier such as 'To the best of my knowledge', the latter is an
impossible warrant both practically,
"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> IBM has recently released 500 patents for use in opensource code.
>
> http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf
>
> "...In order to foster innovation and avoid the possibility that a
> party will take advantage of this pledg
Skip Montanaro wrote:
Who is going to decide if a particular library would be affected by one or
more of the 500 patents IBM released?
Skip
I am thinking more along the lines of, "our policy on accepting new code
[will/will not] be to allow new submissions which use some of that
patented code." I
