From phm@a2e.de Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:20:30 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:20:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] brevets et logiciel libres (version elaboree)

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, John Tobey wrote:

> Where can I learn about cases of free software programmers who have
> been sued for patent infringement?

Bruce Perens has been threatened with a lawsuit by a company who got a
patent on his e-fence concept just a few months before he published his
program. Another programmer who wrote a GNU program had to stop because of
a patent which came later than his idea.  This case is mentioned in a
paper by Richard Stallman on http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/.

I hope I can collect more details later.

-phm





