On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:41:19PM -0300, Christian Reis wrote: > > Honestly, I don't think offering public read-only CVS is any more a > > patent liability than distributing source code in tarballs. > > It's about where the server is located. Finnish law does not recognise > software patents, yet, so it should be quite safe to distribute software > here. But in September there should be a vote in EU parliament/council/ > whatever that most likely will set into motion changes to the worse > although it would still take time for the directive to become a law. > After that, Finland is no safer than the US where most of the services > are located.
Meaning distribution of Ion will become legally challengeable in your own country; will you cease distributing Ion (source code/binaries) at that point? (If we found a free CVS repository in Finland, would that be an acceptable compromise till then, by the way?) Take care, -- Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil. http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL
