Hi Stanislav, I am well aware of this issue. I've asked CERN management what their position is, but I've not yet gotten a reply. It is impossible to make such an analysis because for that you have to check every algorithm in ROOT against several tens of thousands of software patents that have been issued by the European patent office. Wait and see. Cheers, Fons. On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:39, Stanislav Nesterov wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know it may be annoying but I think that the new proposal can > affect ROOT developers as well. I am not sure about patent purity in > ROOT sources but I may be wrong. Is anybody make such analysis for the > ROOT source code? > > See http://swpat.ffii.org/ for details about software patents and > what can we do about it. > > Best regards, > > Stanislav. -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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