Re: [Fwd: Software patent protest, could kde participate ?]
James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
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Timothy R. Butler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>I don't think so. The big mistake is the copyright of the binary code. > > > So long as you could copyright source code, I guess that'd be okay. But some > form of copyright is essential. Yes, that is what I meant. You could copyright the source code. And this would work OK with Open Source because to copyright the source code, you MUST publish it. :-) Or, if you are a commercial software company, you could get a design patent which does provide stronger protection than a copyright. -- JRT Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.