Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 04:49:56 01/08/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 07:39:55, Peter Berger wrote: >I really don't understand how this licensing scheme is supposed to work, and >even less after reading your explanations. > >a.) Someone might write a Gothic Chess engine just for the kicks. > >He doesn't need a license, obviously. Though your patent might forbid to even >do this, everyone can write any piece of code for his personal and private >use - no one can monitor this. I don't know the situation in the US, but in Germany it's perfectly legal to do so. Patent law is an industrial property right. Private persons _cannot_ break any patents by definition. Not sure about the situation in the US though. Sargon PS. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_341943.html :)
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