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- From: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>
- To: Erik Josefsson <ehj@cleosan.com>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] sisco on mobile standards
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:23:29 +0100
El Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:26:29AM +0100, Erik Josefsson deia:
>
> Is this vision not made possible by the Parliament article 6a:
>
> "... the use of a patented technique... for... ensuring conversion of
> the conventions used in two different... networks so as to allow
> communication and exchange of data content between them, such use is not
> considered to be a patent infringement."
>
> ???
>
> It sounds like a reworded RAND and RF w3c licence to me.
>
No. 6a is better than w3c Patent Policy, because w3c Patent Policy does only
affect patents by w3c members, not by anyone else. The EP's 6a is putting a
public infrastructure requirement and a civil right of speech in networks,
were it belongs: in law.
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