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<H1>[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)</H1>
<B>Romain d'Alverny</B>
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<I>Tue Feb 22 11:04:26 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:57, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 10:13 +0100, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
</I>>><i> Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some
</I>>><i> algorythms library to build panoramic photographs)
</I>>><i> Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...)
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</I>>><i> That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter :
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Yes, that's a good sample to use to improve our policy draft.
>><i> Long time ago,
</I>
How long is a "long time ago"? because every patent has a term and
here it may have expired.
>><i> iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against
</I>>><i> these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this
</I>>><i> company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is
</I>>><i> still live... )
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, who own the patents now ?
</I>
><i>From <A HREF="http://wiki.panotools.org/Ipix">http://wiki.panotools.org/Ipix</A> it looks a former competitor got a
</I>hold on all assets from iPix.
On the decision/sorting out side, for this and for any other patent
issue, do we document already (in source code or a separate file) the
reasons to activate or not pieces of a software (or to exclude them
from packages), because of some patents?
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:
<A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=software_patents_policy">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=software_patents_policy</A> .
Cheers,
Romain
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