Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Tue May 26 19:17:44 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Peter Lemenkov (lemenkov at gmail.com) said: 
>   
> ... what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
>
> Make it legal to ship MP3 code? Sorry, those are patented in Europe as well.
>
>   
Patents are *currently* illegal in Europe, (though they may be granted).
The patents offices being self-funding and all that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention
"Article 52"

Frank





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