[ANNOUNCE] Spring loading folder behaviour (bad news inside)

[Luciano Montanaro]

El Thursday 27 May 2004 12:47, Waldo Bastian escribió:
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> On Thu May 27 2004 12:31, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > So I think we are allowed to try out the patent-covered things, as long as
> > we do not distribute binaries.
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> ftp.kde.org and its mirrors do.
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Oops. I forgot about that.

> > To make life easier to packageres, maybe the default configure script
> > should disable features that may be patented. The packagers could check if
> > patents are valid in their target market, and enable the features if they
> > feel safe.
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> That's a possibility indeed. More of our users will benefit if the patent can 
> be worked around though.
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Sure, that'd be better, if it is possible. But patents are coming out 
for everything, and if they were to be enforced, we'd be in deep trouble. 
Not KDE alone, obviously. How do we deal, for example with the "new" JPEG patent?

Luciano