Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 12:07 -0700, Walter Landry a écrit : > Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is now a patent for Apple of the concept of "Dock". Is there a > > risk for all "dock" packages in Debian, such as avant-window-navigator ? > > There is a patent risk for every package in Debian. Until someone > starts enforcing a patent, the de-facto policy of Debian has been to > ignore it. Thanks for the clarification. I hope it'll stay as it, just a threat, not a reality.
Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 21:00 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > IANAL, but patents are not supposed to "protect" ideas, but > implementations. It is at least true in the hardware industry. It often > happens that companies circumvent competitor patents by implementing the > same idea in another way, sometimes even filing a patent for the new > implementation. I think the same, but when I read the patent, it's more a concept that a simple implementation. But IANAL too. Regards, Julien Lavergne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
