On 4 Jul 2005, at 11:44 am, Wookey wrote: > Take a look at this patent (granted this week in europe) > > http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1170667 > > I'm fairly sure that apt-get and associated package-integratity > checking tools could be considered infringing. (Does dpkg/apt have > a modular structure?)
Clearly not patentable; there's surely gobs of prior art before the filing year of 2000. This attempts to patent a generic package testing framework! It looks to me like dejagnu would "infringe" some of these claims, if they were valid, which they aren't. The only claims which might be even slightly tricky to find prior art for are the claims about assigning a "priority" to each test. It's currently in a nine-month opposition period. Anyone want to do the work to find and send in the opposition material? Gee, patent quality is at an all-time low. :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]