Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756395AbXFPUPd (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:15:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752688AbXFPUPW (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:15:22 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([216.148.227.153]:58355 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752193AbXFPUPV (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:15:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 302 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:15:21 EDT Message-ID: <46745567.2030701@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:25:59 -0600 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox 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 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> <20070616210834.3bd051b9@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070616210834.3bd051b9@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 34 Alan Cox wrote: >>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. > > Thanks for clarifying Alan, I was uncertain about current patent laws in the UK and abroad. I know this area has undergone considerable debate and changes recently, and I have not been keeping up with all of it. Jeff >- >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/ > > > - 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/