Re: patents on Frets on Fire, Pydance, StepMania and such games
John Halton wrote:
> I haven't been able to find out whether there are any equivalent
> patents outside the US, so it may be this is a US-only (or perhaps
> Japan also) patent. What is Debian's policy as regards software that
> is encumbered by patents in one jurisdiction but not others?
There is a European patent EP1064974B1 and a Japanese application
JP2001009152.
You can locate family members by going to
http://ep.espacenet.com/numberSearch?locale=en_EP
entering one member's number (US6347998 in this case). Then
click on the result to get the details. On the right there's
the "Also published as".
Arnoud
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