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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?



>> Even though they're illegal, the amount of money it takes to *prove* that
>> to a patent court is more than most F/OSS projects have.

> IANAL, but _all_ software patents are _explicitly_ forbidden by current 
> legislation (in the EU), anybody suing a software project for violating 
> their patent is clearly saying their patent covers software. (and thus is 
> illegal) 

You cannot patent software, but the EPC doesn't say that software
cannot infringe patents. 8-(



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