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From: HULIN Antoine <antoine.hulin@criltechnology.com>
To: patents@aful.org
Subject: RE: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:50:04 +0100

> You are right - GPL is more restrictive more controlling than public
> domain software. Though given copyright's impotence with regards to
> software, and GPL's reliance on copyright, GPL is effectively public
> domain anyways.

You probably meant "Ideas implemented in GPLed software are
public domain." The software is protected by copyright the
idea is not.

... and swpat in themself protect ideas, not software. They
are used to protect software because the patent holder controls
who may implement the idea.

Antoine Hulin

Re: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics, PILCH Hartmut
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics, HULIN Antoine
  - RE: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics, PILCH Hartmut
    - Re: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics, iriXx
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        "Copyleft" abstract, iriXx
        
        Re: [Patents] "Copyleft" abstract, Seth Johnson
        
        Re: [Patents] "Copyleft" abstract, PILCH Hartmut

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