From xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:46:46 +0200
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:46:46 +0200
From: Xuan Baldauf xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org
Subject: [Patents] German federal court rules swpats to be legal

For German speakers:
http://www.computerchannel.de/recht/politik/patente_auf_software/patente_auf_software_1.phtml

The full judgement:
 http://www.jurpc.de/rechtspr/20000137.htm

Maybe we need, along with "Everybody has the right to use
cryphtographic algorithms." a human right like "Everybody has the
right to invent and to use these inventions, even if somebody already
invented the same or similar things before." as part of free speech.

Xun.






