On 08/08/11 00:58, Egon Ashrafinia wrote: > I mean, the main problem is that this is a Software Patent, correct? Always > as I > know, only in the United States of America, correct?
Incorrect. There's also quite a few other countries which allow software patents directly, such as Japan, South Korea, Australia, etc. Even if you believe the oversimplified (and incorrect) view that the EU has no software patents, European courts have enforced patents such as the MP3 ones when built into a hardware device such as an MP3 player. If you want to ensure Mesa is never built into a phone, or included as part of a preinstalled Linux bundle on a laptop, doing the wrong thing with patents is a good way to accomplish that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev