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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/ 4/14 12:10 PM, Sean Davis wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1415099428.3260.1@smtp.gmail.com" type="cite">
<div>(several games, legal codecs, etc).</div>
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Just to mention,Codecs (like those in VLC etc) are actually legal,<br>
except in US, that enforce some insane patent laws that allow that
certain way of describing mathematical algorithms is under 'software
patents' that is not existing anywhere in the world but in U.S. ...<br>
Thing that codecs are moved in separate repositories is because it
allows people from US to install them, because they are hosted
outside U.S and U.S. satellites/U.S.occupied territories. <br>
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So there are no software patents in free world and for the most of
the world, codecs are legal.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Europe: Computer-implemented inventions that
<i>only</i> solve a business problem using a computer, rather than
a technical problem, are considered unpatentable as lacking an
inventive step</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">In April 2013, the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Parliament"
title="German Parliament" class="mw-redirect">German Parliament</a>
adopted a joint motion "against the growing trend of patent
offices to grant patents on software programs."</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">In <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>,
a clause to include software patents was quashed by the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Parliament"
title="Indian Parliament" class="mw-redirect">Indian Parliament</a>
in April 2005.</blockquote>
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