Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756800AbXFPUDi (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:03:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752558AbXFPUD2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:03:28 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:59130 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbXFPUD1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:03:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:08:34 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" Cc: Jan Harkes , Jack Stone , alan , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system Message-ID: <20070616210834.3bd051b9@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <46744225.7000609@wolfmountaingroup.com> References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <46739B2C.4080606@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673B15B.2080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> <4673B77E.1000803@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20070616164931.GF14788@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <46744225.7000609@wolfmountaingroup.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 13 > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19&SORT=1211506-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=1205953&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-EN&RESULT=1&TOTAL=3&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2005045566&QUERY=%28IN%2fmerkey%29+ > > The last one was filed with WIPO and has international protection, UK > included. Nope. EU and UK law does not recognize software as patentable. See the caselaw. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/