Re: nomarch-1.2 - Problems with RLE patent 4,586,027

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Grant
Hi There! Checked out the other 2 patents on RLE; As a result of this nomarch can be included in main, and the other packages (SDL, OpenGL and Mesa) where RLE are used can stay where they are. After sitting down and carefully looking at them for most of the day, the summary is as follows: US pa

Re: Implied exceptions to GPL?

2002-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 01:16, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:44:55AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 00:30, Brian May wrote: > > > > 2. If you wrote and released the program under the GPL, and you designe > d > > > > it specifically to work with those fa

Re: Implied exceptions to GPL?

2002-05-17 Thread Walter Landry
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another interesting example: Emacs is a GPL'ed interpreter has you can > hardly code for without using it's GPL'ed bindings. Therefore external > elisp code must be distributed under a GPL-compatible license. At some > point we should go over all the