[DotGNU]Re: the .NET API patent issue

[Norbert Bollow]

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We have obtained legal advice on how to go about creating legally
bulletproof alternatives to the US-patent-endangered APIs.  In a
nutshell, the design part has to be outside the US (and whoever
does it should never take the fruit of this work with him into the
US), however the FSF patent lawyer says that implementing those
replacement APIs in terms of already-exiting free libs will be
"entirely safe", even for developers in the US.

If you are outside the US, and you feel able and qualified to
volunteer for API design work, please send a (non-public) email
message to

  coreteam at dotgnu dot org

so that we can discuss the details.


Greetings, Norbert.

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Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59        Fax +41 1 972 20 69       http://norbert.ch
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