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[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

+ Philippe DIDIER + philippedidier at laposte.net +
+ Tue Feb 22 11:48:10 CET 2011 +

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+Quote: rdalverny wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:04
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+
+> >> Long time ago,
+> 
+> How long is a "long time ago"? because every patent has a term and
+> here it may have expired.
+> 
+
+Long time ago means 1999..
+Actually the problem has not expired : Bruno Postle the main dev of hugin
+and panotools projects uses fedora and builds the rpm for Fedora (and
+proposes on his own repo rpms of the betas and release candidates ... )
+He is certainly the guy that must be aware of the patent problems : he
+still proposes a limited version of panotools on official Fedora's
+repositories !!!
+
+The source are written to be built with or without fov limitation depending
+of the possible patent infringement (no limit in Europe...)
+
+> List of questions to check would be at least:
+>  - what is exactly covered by what patent (reference, registration,
+> territory/ies for which it has been registered)?
+>  - where is it implemented exactly in the source code? (
+>  - who owns this patent?
+>  - did the patent holder announce his clear intention upon it? (that
+> is, is he using it to control/restrain use or not? *)
+>  - are there obvious prior art that could make this patent obviously
+> invalid?
+>  - what is decided and when (and what may change the decision, later)?
+>  - what would be alternative ways to implement the function (if the
+> patent does not just cover the function, but a specific implementation
+> of it)?
+> 
+> * one does not necessarily register a patent to be offensive with it;
+> here, we knew about iPix, what about the new holder?
+> 
+> Btw, a draft policy for patents management was discussed among
+> founders and other people (lawyers) months ago and a tentative summary
+> written by me here:
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=software_patents_policy .
+> 
+> Cheers,
+> 
+> Romain
+> 
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Best regards
+Philippe
+
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