>
>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'
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