CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 11/08/25 16:37:46
Modified files:
philosophy/po : europes-unitary-patent.pot
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/europes-unitary-patent.pot?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Patches:
Index: europes-unitary-patent.pot
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/po/europes-unitary-patent.pot,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- europes-unitary-patent.pot 25 Aug 2011 08:37:13 -0000 1.1
+++ europes-unitary-patent.pot 25 Aug 2011 16:36:35 -0000 1.2
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-08-25 04:25-0300\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-08-25 12:25-0300\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <l...@li.org>\n"
@@ -17,14 +17,12 @@
#. type: Content of: <title>
msgid ""
-"Europe’s “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software "
-"patents - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation"
+"Europe's “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software patents "
+"- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <h2>
-msgid ""
-"Europe’s “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software "
-"patents"
+msgid "Europe's “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software
patents"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
@@ -53,7 +51,7 @@
"Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose "
"monopolies on software ideas. It is not feasible or safe to develop "
"nontrivial software if you must thread a maze of patents. See "
-"“Software Patents and Literary Patents”, Guardian, June 20, "
+"“Software Patents and Literary Patents”, Guardian, June 20, "
"2005."
msgstr ""
@@ -81,11 +79,11 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
-"The Commission’s text was written in a sneaky way: when read by "
-"laymen, it appeared to forbid patents on pure software ideas, because it "
-"required a patent application to have a physical aspect. However, it did "
-"not require the “inventive step”, the advance that constitutes a "
-"patentable “invention”, to be physical."
+"The Commission's text was written in a sneaky way: when read by laymen, it "
+"appeared to forbid patents on pure software ideas, because it required a "
+"patent application to have a physical aspect. However, it did not require "
+"the “inventive step”, the advance that constitutes a patentable "
+"“invention”, to be physical."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
@@ -102,18 +100,18 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
-"A massive grass-roots effort — the first one ever directed at "
-"convincing the European Parliament — resulted in defeat of the "
-"directive. But that does not mean we convinced half of Parliament to reject "
-"software patents. Rather, it seems the pro-patent forces decided at the "
-"last minute to junk their own proposal."
+"A massive grass-roots effort—the first one ever directed at convincing "
+"the European Parliament—resulted in defeat of the directive. But that "
+"does not mean we convinced half of Parliament to reject software patents. "
+"Rather, it seems the pro-patent forces decided at the last minute to junk "
+"their own proposal."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
"The volunteer activists drifted away, thinking the battle won, but the "
"corporate lobbyists for software patents were paid to stay on the job. Now "
-"they have contrived another sneaky method: the “unitary patent” "
+"they have contrived another sneaky method: the “unitary patent” "
"system proposed for the EU. Under this system, if the European Patent Office "
"issues a patent, it will automatically be valid in every participating "
"country, which in this case means all of the EU except for Spain and Italy."
@@ -122,18 +120,17 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
"How would that affect software patents? Evidently, either the unitary patent "
-"system would allow software patents or it wouldn’t. If it allows them, "
-"no country will be able to escape them on its own. That would be bad, but "
-"what if the system rejects software patents? Then it would be good — "
-"right?"
+"system would allow software patents or it wouldn't. If it allows them, no "
+"country will be able to escape them on its own. That would be bad, but what "
+"if the system rejects software patents? Then it would be good—right?"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
-"Right — except the plan was designed to prevent that. A small but "
-"crucial detail in the plan is that appeals against the EPO’s decisions "
-"would be decided based on the EPO’s own rules. The EPO could thus tie "
-"European business and computer users in knots to its heart’s content."
+"Right—except the plan was designed to prevent that. A small but "
+"crucial detail in the plan is that appeals against the EPO's decisions would "
+"be decided based on the EPO's own rules. The EPO could thus tie European "
+"business and computer users in knots to its heart's content."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
@@ -150,11 +147,11 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
-"In fact, the EPO’s decision about software patents has already been "
-"made, and can be seen in action. The EPO has issued tens of thousands of "
-"software patents, in contempt for the treaty that established it. (See <a "
-"href=\"http://webshop.ffii.org/\";>“Your web shop is "
-"patented”</a>.) At present, though, each state decides whether those "
+"In fact, the EPO's decision about software patents has already been made, "
+"and can be seen in action. The EPO has issued tens of thousands of software "
+"patents, in contempt for the treaty that established it. (See <a "
+"href=\"http://webshop.ffii.org/\";>“Your web shop is "
+"patented”</a>.) At present, though, each state decides whether those "
"patents are valid. If the unitary patent system is adopted and the EPO gets "
"unchecked power to decide, Europe will get US-style patent wars."
msgstr ""
@@ -162,10 +159,10 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
"The European Court of Justice ruled in March that a unitary patent system "
-"would have to be subject to its jurisdiction, but it isn’t clear "
-"whether its jurisdiction would include substantive policy decisions such as "
-"“can software ideas be patented?” That’s because "
-"it’s not clear how the European Patent Convention relates to the ECJ."
+"would have to be subject to its jurisdiction, but it isn't clear whether its "
+"jurisdiction would include substantive policy decisions such as “can "
+"software ideas be patented?” That's because it's not clear how the "
+"European Patent Convention relates to the ECJ."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
@@ -173,10 +170,9 @@
"If the ECJ can decide this, the plan would no longer be certain "
"disaster. Instead, the ball would be one bounce away from disaster. Before "
"adopting such a system, Europe should rewrite the plan to make certain "
-"software is safe from patents. If that can’t be done, the next best "
-"thing is to reject the plan entirely. Minor simplifications are not worth a "
-"disaster; harmonization is a misguided goal if it means doing things wrong "
-"everywhere."
+"software is safe from patents. If that can't be done, the next best thing is "
+"to reject the plan entirely. Minor simplifications are not worth a disaster; "
+"harmonization is a misguided goal if it means doing things wrong everywhere."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <p>
@@ -196,13 +192,13 @@
#. type: Content of: <p>
msgid ""
-"You will note that the term “intellectual property” has not been "
+"You will note that the term “intellectual property” has not been "
"used in this article. That term spreads confusion because it is applied to a "
"dozen unrelated laws. Even if we consider just patent law and copyright law, "
"they are so different in their requirements and effects that generalizing "
"about the two is a mistake. Absolutely nothing in this article pertains to "
"copyright law. To avoid leading people to generalize about disparate laws, I "
-"never use the term “intellectual property”, and I never miss it "
+"never use the term “intellectual property”, and I never miss it "
"either."
msgstr ""
