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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: HULIN Antoine <antoine.hulin@criltechnology.com>
- Cc: <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: RE: [Patents] Research on Free Software Economics
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:18:55 +0100 (CET)
> > 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.
The GPL cannot guarantee that any idea is in the public domain.
Copyright itself used to guarantee this, but meanwhile a patent landgrab
has voided this guarantee.
> ... and swpat in themself protect ideas, not software. They are used
> to protect software because the patent holder controls who may
> implement the idea.
The term 'software' comprises idea, process, expression and more. Thus
swpat are also a form of software-related property. But a rather
counter-intuitive one. While conventional ethics holds it that one may own
what one has created, swpat allow you to control other people's creations.
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
100,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
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