Scott> Since this includes patents on compression and encryption stuff,
Scott> we will definitely be faced with deciding on whether to allow use
Scott> of these patents in the main Python library.
Who is going to decide if a particular library would be affected by one or
more of the 5
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 pledge and then assert patents or
other intellectual pro
