OK. I'll look into it. I'm a patent novice. But have professors at my disposal. If you have a precise factual issue, it will aid me in focusing my inquiry. Thanks, talk to you soon.
NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 19:58:47 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I'm a law student and willing to help in any way I can. > > One of the most complex legal issues that free software development may be > confronted with is software patents (see e.g. http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/), > especially when dealing with international issues (e.g. If I use (in the > Netherlands) a program developed in Sweden (where software/algorithms > reputedly cannot be patented, but which I assume is a signator to WIPO) that > implements an algorithm that's patented in the US, am I in trouble?) and > broadness of patents (see mozilla.org's troubles with Wang over a > videotext-related patent). > > It would be good for Debian to have (semi-)professional legal advice to fall > back on in these matters. > > Ray > -- > J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks > | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. > | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
