22 May
2012
22 May
'12
3:21 a.m.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Les Kitchen <ljk@csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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2. Even though Patentology is correct in pointing that the GPL (and copyleft) technically relies on copyright law, he omits to mention that that's only a defence against a system that's largely biassed against free flow of ideas and methods and code.
Plus, patents != copyright, just because they share the IP umbrella. For the most part it should be pretty trivial for an individual to not violate copyright when writing software, but it can be impossible to even know if you are violating a patent. Cheers, - Tim.