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From: Holger Blasum <holger@blasum.net>
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Hello *,

June 2003 issue of Upgrade, Vol 4(3), titled "Open Knowledge".

http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2003/3/upgrade-vIV-3.html

Founded in October 2000, UPGRADE is The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 31 European countries and is the voice of above 200,000 ICT Professionals in our continent.  

In this issue:
Why software should be within the scope of copyright law, and not patent law. Pierre Haren opens this section with some brief notes on his opinion on software patents, ?A Note on Software Patents?.  Later, Alberto Bercovitz Rodrguez-Cano offers a transcript of his ?On the Patentability of Inventions Involving Computer Programmes?, which he delivered at a hearing held at the European Parliament, and Roberto Di Cosmo contributes with ?Legal Tools to Protect Software: Choosing the Right One?, an article studying the different legal tools to deal with software. Closing this section, we include ?Petition to the European Parliament?, written by several well-known European computer scientists and engineers, related to the proposed Directive on software patents currently being discussed at the European Parliament. 

Regards,

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Holger Blasum <holger@blasum.net>   pls sign http://petition.eurolinux.org
GnuPG 1024D/ACDFC3B769DC1ED66B47    against software patents in Europe! 
http://www.ffii.org/~blasum/swpat/

