On Friday 13 May 2005 19:07, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
Code using the C syntax described in the patent doesn't compile in winelib
yet [snip]. Give me a week or two...
Imagine that, it seems I have once again imagined myself to have more spare
time than I really do. Honestly, folks, I can't
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Its highly likely that GCC and WINE are already infringing on some
software patent somewhere (since its well nigh impossible not to in the
current patent everything you can climate inside a number of big
companies)
What makes this particular borland patent any different?
On Thu, 12 May 2005, gslink wrote:
The whole business of software patents is very likely to explode at any time.
I assume this is somewhat related to the Winelib article on Slashdot:
Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/05/12/1947213.shtml
If not I'll make
On Friday 13 May 2005 15:09, Francois Gouget wrote:
* The Slashdot summary makes it sound like Wine is infringing on the
patent and that we will have to remove some code.
Wine duplicates many of the data structures in Windows which are described in
the patent. Code using the C syntax
The whole business of software patents is very likely to explode at any
time. There are several software patents on cds and dvds which are so
vague that it is impossible to tell exactly what is going on. The
licenses to use these patents allow the company issuing the patent to
control cd
gslink wrote:
The easiest way to resolve this business with Borland is to contact
Borland. They may also have an interest in Wine. If they have no
objection to what Wine wants to do then there is no one else to
complain. They might even help Wine. Borland probably doesn't even
realize that
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:04:57AM -0400, gslink wrote:
The easiest way to resolve this business with Borland is to contact
Borland. They may also have an interest in Wine. If they have no
objection to what Wine wants to do then there is no one else to
complain. They might even help
David Lee Lambert wrote:
Would Wine be able to proceed if we got the following statement from them?
Borland hereby grants a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to
use the methods described in U.S. patent 5,628,016 to the current Wine
developers when they use the current LGPL source-code
gslink wrote:
Borland probably doesn't even
realize that Wine exists although some of the people in Borland are
probably very familiar with it. I think you will find this to be true
of all big software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.
IRC borland had a delphi for linux named kylix which
Its highly likely that GCC and WINE are already infringing on some software
patent somewhere (since its well nigh impossible not to in the current
patent everything you can climate inside a number of big companies)
What makes this particular borland patent any different?
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Its highly likely that GCC and WINE are already infringing on some
software patent somewhere (since its well nigh impossible not to in the
current patent everything you can climate inside a number of big
companies)
What makes this particular borland patent any different?
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