[Savannah-hackers] [James Michael DuPont] Possible patent violation : implementation of patent submitted interfaces

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi Richard,

James Michael DuPont send us the following information, I estimated
that you should handle that issue, not savannah-hackers, as it is a
GNU project management issue:


    "Submitted by: James Michael DuPont
    On: Wed 12/03/03 at 14:25

    In this cvs repository are interfaces that are coverted by patent
    applications from microsoft. 

    
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/dotgnu-pnet/pnetlib/System.Windows.Forms/

    I think that they should be removed from the main cvs, because
    their licensing is not GPL compatible and it is questionable if
    they will have to be removed when the patent is approved. For that
    reason it is unfair that users and contributors are mislead in
    thinking they are contributing to a gpled and free software.  

    The implementing of patented software is against the guidelines of
    the gnu project.

    Therefore i request that the patent endangerd software be split
    off into a separate project on savannah or removed from savannah
    in total. If it is kept, it is needed to make a new license for
    it, that explicitly states the danger of contributing to that and
    warning the user that all work might be invalidated in the future.

    That is the only fair thing for you to do

    mike"

It is about the "DotGNU .Net" project. The mail address of James
Michael DuPont is <address@hidden>


Regards,


-- 
Mathieu Roy

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