[Patents] free sw removed from german website due to US swpat threats

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

some questions:

  does anyone have a copy of the site or of the software so that it
can be replicated in other places.

  is his software free, i.e. available with sources. Will it run with
Gimp.  If yes, that could make the community more active.
   If no, why ?

  this has been going on for some time. How comes it gets publicity
only now ?

Bernard


On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:01:43AM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > Then Dersch is an idiot getting bad advice who isn't being terrorized.
> > Unless there are German patents involved, IPIX's US patents don't
> > require him to do anything.  Additionally, this is free image
> > processing software packages all over the Internet (including some
> > from US government agency laboratories).
> >
> > All he has to do is fax a letter to IPIX saying "US PATENTS HAVE NO
> > ENFORCEMENT VALUE IN GERMANY.  GOODBYE."
> 
> I would suspect that too.
> 
> On the other hand side, the German Federal Court seems to think
> differently, since it has handed penal verdicts to forein citizens
> (e.g. an Australian) for information crimes (publishing nazi
> propaganda on a website in Australia).
> 
> Thus things have become very uncalculable for an ordinary citizen.
> And I think Dersch is getting some legal advice.  He has been harassed by
> iPIX for several years, all on the basis of US patents.
> If they get an injunction that will make it risky for him to travel to
> the US, that might be enough.
> But I don't know.
> 
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