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- Subject: Re: [eigen] New Licensing FAQ
- From: Daniel Stonier <d.stonier@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:29:18 +0900
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> Especially in our case, I'm pretty sure that we never even discussed
> patents in our mailing list or anywhere --- anyway, Eigen being a
> general mathematics library, it is essentially playing outside of the
> domain where any patents exist, even in the US. I'm not aware of any
> patented general linear algebra algorithm, and when that happens,
> it'll be the last step until Pythagoras' theorem and the operation of
> "multiplying two integers" ultimately get patented ;)
I mentioned something along these lines to them. I thought
it was odd that they were taking such an anti--anti-patent
fundamentalist stance,
so I asked them how they felt about us using GNU/Linux on the product,
the gnu g++ compiler to build the programs and the gnu c/c++ libraries.
Given that, then protesting against a math library, given the very
openness of math traditionally, seemed a bit obtuse.
> Just a question for my information. Were the lawyers in question from
> the US or Korea?
Surprisingly, from Europe.
Regards,
Daniel Stonier
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