CEPIS Upgrade June 2003

[Holger Blasum <holger@blasum.net>]

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 
Rodríguez-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/