[Savannah-register-public] Re: [task #3659] Submission of The FreeType Project

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Hehe, many national patent agencies have approved software patents
> > inspite of not being allowed to do that.  Additionally it is next
> > to useless to develop software which can't be used in the USA
> > legally...
> 
> I think it is good to make clear those patents are not enforceable
> at the moment in Europe.  As for me I only discovered recently that
> I could legally create GIFs, because somebody pointed me France
> doesn't accept software patents.  I don't think I would help
> fighting legalization of software patents if I believed they were
> already in place :)

Well, this sounds nice in theory, but David Turner (from our FreeType
project) has received mail from Apple lawyers shortly after we
discovered the patent problems.  This isn't funny at all.


    Werner