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RE: [xml-dev] Cutting special deals for open source developers --noway!
- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@nihongo.org>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:10:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> Of course, we will have patents related to *efficient* implementation of
> XQuery. The open cooperation is on the definition of the language itself,
> and it must be possible to do a naive implementation without violating any
> patents.
Yargh.
That just raised the evil specter of a (hypothetical) design that can be
implemented with exponential run time for free and polynomial or better
run time _only_ via patent encumbered algorithms.
It could effectively be equivalent to patenting that part of the spec's
requirements since it would bar any _deployable_ implementations that were
not subject to the patent.
--
Benjamin Franz
You are in a maze of twisty IP laws that all look the same.