Re: [boost] software patents?

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-20 10:21:03

Greg Colvin wrote:

 >Of course, with the US Patent Office churning out thousands of
 >software patents there is every chance that some Boost code already
 >violates some patents. If so I wonder if Boost itself is liable, or
 >if responsibility rests on those who use Boost to create an actual
 >product?
 >
 >If Boost is liable what are we supposed to do about it?
 >
 >I myself refuse to read any patents, on the grounds that knowingly
 >violating a patent is a worse crime than unknowingly doing so.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

We aren't lawyers; we could talk about patents all day but it would just be 
speculation.

--Beman