On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:49:36PM +0100, Benedikt Wildenhain wrote:
At the moment software-patents in Europe are not legalized yet,
but the world wide web is world wide... So are we safe or not? (I mean THIS patent) Should stylesheets be avoided or not? (I'm writing a small tool, that creates HTML code with stylesheets)
I mean there was also a patent on code for GIF files and the FSF in America stopped using it and warned people. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html I'm wondering, if stylesheets is any different. The FSF in America doesn't use stylesheets, but they don't write anything about it...?
Hello,
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:48:49AM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
but the world wide web is world wide... So are we safe or not? (I mean THIS patent) Should stylesheets be avoided or not?
I would say they should be avoided, but I am not an expert in software-patents.
The FSF in America doesn't use stylesheets, but they don't write anything about it...?
Somebody should imo ask them.