Re: [DotGNU]Re: the .NET API patent issue

[Marcus]

So US citizens are not welcome to assist to Pnet?


On Friday 10 October 2003 5:24 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:
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> We have obtained legal advice on how to go about creating legally
> bulletproof alternatives to the US-patent-endangered APIs.  In a
> nutshell, the design part has to be outside the US (and whoever
> does it should never take the fruit of this work with him into the
> US), however the FSF patent lawyer says that implementing those
> replacement APIs in terms of already-exiting free libs will be
> "entirely safe", even for developers in the US.