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- Subject: Re: [eigen] New Licensing FAQ
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:47:38 -0500
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2010/1/28 Daniel Stonier <d.stonier@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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.
Good point!
>
>> Just a question for my information. Were the lawyers in question from
>> the US or Korea?
>
> Surprisingly, from Europe.
Oh!
Benoit
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Stonier
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