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+ <B>Olivier Lejade</B>
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+ TITLE="[Nel] Copyright, Patents and the GPL">lejade@nevrax.com</A><BR>
+ <I>Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:10:14 +0200</I>
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+<PRE>Wow, I'm out of town for three days and I miss all the fun ! :)
+Anyway, here goes my 0.02$.
+
+About the &quot;game rules&quot; issue:
+John and Dave pretty much hit the nail on the head, so I won't go into an
+extended rant. I'll only add that although you could probably (as Dave
+mentionned) patent your rules *in the US*, it would most certainly be a bad
+idea as it is very expensive and time consuming to fill such a patent and
+numerous countries will not recognize it anyway.
+Keep in mind that software and business method patents are highly
+objectionable in the first place. You can read more about this subject here:
+<A HREF="http://www.freepatents.org/">http://www.freepatents.org/</A>
+and here:
+<A HREF="http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html">http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html</A>
+
+European citizens should also consider signing the petition against
+software patents:
+<A HREF="http://petition.eurolinux.org/index.html?LANG=en">http://petition.eurolinux.org/index.html?LANG=en</A>
+
+As for the Pro/Anti GPL debate:
+Stephane Craux, I'm afraid you are *completely* missing the point of Free
+Software. If you are genuinely interested in learning about it and
+understanding what it stands for, I strongly suggest you spend some time
+reading the texts on the GNU project's &quot;philosophy&quot; page:
+<A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/</A>
+But I suspect you're only trolling... :(
+
+Finally, for those who still have questions about NeL's license, don't
+forget: the GPL FAQ is your friend !
+<A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html</A>
+
+Hope this helps !
+
+O.
+
+
+
+
+
+-- Nevrax --
+Olivier Lejade
+CEO and co-founder
+www.nevrax.com
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