8 Nov
2006
8 Nov
'06
12:12
If this patent is valid, no one can (apart from some exception for educational usage).
The point is that you can not drop patents of other parties by implementing their patented stuff and declare it GPL.
In short, you are not allowed to use the GPL license for your software, when there are patents, which do limitate the usage. (there might be patents, but they need to be granted for usage in a way which fit to the GPL.)
In short, patents cover ideas, not implementations. -`J' -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org