On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

> As for other similar services, I wouldn't want to move the distribution
> (and partially development) of Ion to US soil because of patents that
> may cover parts Ion and some other WMs as well. Also BerliOS (in Germany)
> terms of service the last time I read them mentioned that the software
> should not be covered by any patents. Although the Finnish law does not
> currently recognize software and algorithm patents, I don't know about
> the German situation and the EPO is as bad as USPTO: there is an EPO patent
> on the feature not mentioned above. Unfortunately a BSA-drafted EU software
> patent directive will most likely pass soon despite heavy opposition, if
> already hasn't, and the Finnish law will then also have to be changed to
> that draconian direction.

Have you thought about creating nightly CVS snapshots and uploading them
to the web site?

> After that, it doesn't really matter if I start
> using e.g. Savannah... someone should implement CVS on top of e.g. Freenet
> and UDP support for Freenet (to bypass certain firewalls).

Or perhaps svn.debian.org? I haven't used Subversion but CVS is, IMO,
quite bad.

/Pelle

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