OT(?): Soft patenty a Unix a uzitocny link
Peto - www.lentus.sk
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Pondělí Květen 31 14:55:32 CEST 2004
http://www.grokline.net/
Grokline
“If there is any code out there that represents a conceivable risk...,
we'd like to identify it and mitigate the litigation risk now.”
This is an open, community-based, collaborative research project, a
living history, designed to carefully trace the ownership history of
UNIX and UNIX-like code with the goal of reducing, or eliminating, the
amount of software subject to superficially plausible but ultimately
invalid copyright, patent and trade secret claims against Linux or other
free and open source software. If there is any code out there that
represents a conceivable risk of that kind, we'd like to identify it and
mitigate the litigation risk now. If there isn't any valid claim that
can be made, we'd like to be able to prove it.
“Most of the programmers who authored UNIX are still alive... You don't
have to read about UNIX in a book. You lived this history. You know
where to find proof of pieces in the history of this software. ”
The Strategy
COPYRIGHTS: First, we want to document how much of the Unix code-base is
not copyrightable, by showing that it had its origins in earlier
versions that are themselves either no longer copyrighted or never were
copyrighted or copyrightable.
TRADE SECRETS: If some piece of code, or piece of related knowledge, can
be shown to be well-known by third parties who are not under any
contractual non-disclosure obligation, it is no longer a trade secret.
PATENTS: If an idea, method, or function can be proven to be already
known, (even if just to the small group of relevant experts "learned in
the art") then any patent granted can be invalidated. Grokline, with
your help, can document that many "inventions and discoveries" were
already known in the field before any patent claim on them was made.
How Can I Help?
If you have made a personal contribution in the past to the UNIX
code-base, or have had some other professional or personal involvement
with the code, whether as an author, project manager, release manager,
tester, employee, volunteer or in another development role (including
working for a client being sent code by a vendor and sending patches
back), you can make a useful contribution to Grokline by recording what
you know.
We are interested in origins --- when exactly new features first
appeared in the UNIX releases you worked on, and where exactly they came
from. We are intereested in tracing the ownership history. No scrap of
information is too small to be useful, particularly when collected
together with all the other pieces of our community's memory.
viac na webe.
AFAIK je to dost malo zname ^ IMHO velmi dobry projekt, tak zasielam.
Ak to niekeho obtazovalo sorry, popr. na sukr. mail.
Peter
http://www.lentus.sk
Vsetko pre Vase PC
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