Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of SVG4R

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Because of pending patents
        (http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.html) it is
        not possible to write Free Software that implements SVG.  To
        my knowledge it's the first example of a proposed standard
        whose usability is encumbered by a patent.

        This is very unfortunate and you probably know much more than I
        do on this subject. 

        If you know of a way to change this situation, please submit your
        project again explaining how it could be done.

        Thanks,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Holden Glova <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: lgpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: SVG4R
 > System name: dsafari
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > My project is to provide an API to SVG through the Ruby programming
 > language. The aim is to create a library that takes care of
 > creating and using SVG but through Ruby. Initially I would like to
 > identify and create Ruby objects from the SVG spec
 > (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/). This is my initial goal. Following
 > that I would like to figure out how to incorporate Ruby bindings
 > for the possible events that can be used within the SVG model.
 > 
 > 
 > It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.
 > 

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