On 11/ 4/14 12:10 PM, Sean Davis wrote:
(several games, legal codecs, etc).
Just to mention,Codecs (like those in VLC etc) are actually legal,
except in US, that enforce some insane patent laws that allow that
certain way of describing mathematical algorithms is under 'software
patents' that is not existing anywhere in the world but in U.S. ...
Thing that codecs are moved in separate repositories is because it
allows people from US to install them, because they are hosted outside
U.S and U.S. satellites/U.S.occupied territories.
So there are no software patents in free world and for the most of the
world, codecs are legal.
Europe: Computer-implemented inventions that /only/ solve a business
problem using a computer, rather than a technical problem, are
considered unpatentable as lacking an inventive step
In April 2013, the German Parliament
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Parliament> adopted a joint
motion "against the growing trend of patent offices to grant patents
on software programs."
In India <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India>, a clause to include
software patents was quashed by the Indian Parliament
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Parliament> in April 2005.
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