On 10/22/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:10:56PM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Michael Kounavis has given a green signal (please refer the forwarded
> > message).
>
> I don't think that helps. The publishing date of this article was March
> 2006. If this is really the first time this algorithm was published, that
> means that anyone else (or even the author) has the option of patenting
> this algorithm sometime before March 2007 and still claiming they
> invented it first.
>
> And realistically we would wait at least a year or three after that,
> because you don't get to see patents as they're applied for.
>
> Maybe March 2010 we can look into it...
Consudering the author has OK-d it and given how easy
is to replace the algorithm, I don't see the reason for
such carefulness?
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marko