Re: Pure Software's patents covering memory-leak checking

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Thanks for your info James.

Unfortunately there is nobody actively working in patent-examples, I
saw your message and said, "hey, maybe he might want to take over it!"
:-)

If you are interested let me know.

Thanks again.

James Youngman <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi, I was looking for upload instructions for alpha.gnu.org and got
> distracted by reading /gd/gnuorg/patent-examples/mail-archive.  Many
> of the articles in there talk about the difficulties encountered by
> the GCC team regarding techniques apparently patented by Pure
> Software.
> 
> It occurred to me that Rational bought Pure, and IBM bought Rational.
> IBM seems to have a more benign attitude to GNU/Linux, and so this may
> extend to free software in general (after all if they see "Linux" as
> strategic, then improving the GNU system can only help them).
> 
> If the memory-leak detection problem still persists it may well be
> possible to persuage IBM to do something helpful (for example agree to
> license the patent in a Free Software-friendly way).
> 
> While I'm on the subject of memory-leak checkers, if you're interested
> in that area you should look at Valgrind
> (http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/) if you are not already aware of
> it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Youngman
> Manchester, UK.  
> 
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