[Patents] Re: Facts vs. Intention

[Jean-Jacques de Jong jjdj@free.fr]

Jean-Paul Smets wrote:

> It is therefore required by law for the European Legislator to include
> some kind of higher juridical protection for people who publish source
> code than for people who only publish binary code. Such protection could
> for example be an article stating that "programmes provided with their
> source code can not be considered as infringement or contributory
> infringement as long as their publisher includes necessary notices and
> technical processes which alert the end user of potential patent
> infringement and require him/she to make an intentional action before
> using the software and comiting a patent infringement"

This sounds like a consistent and fair idea. But it requires a change in
the law, thus a BIG change. Look how slowly the laws evolve... And who
will be able to convince the "European Legislator"? Do you have a
suggestion?

JJJ