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The open-source patent conundrum

January 31, 2005 OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture around open-source software is turning increasingly murky. TAGS: open-source developer, software patent, patent suit, open source, Open Source Development Labs, Sun Microsystems Inc., patent, open-source community, GPL, Mozilla Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Europe, U.S.

Europe's software patent war ignites again

September 21, 2006 Patent debate may be taken out of hands of elected politicians under new measure, Parliament groups say. TAGS: software patent, litigation, European Union, measure, critic, Europe, open source

Torvalds trashes EU patent proposal

November 23, 2004 Linux creator calls an EU proposal on software patents "deceptive, dangerous and democratically illegitimate." TAGS: Rasmus Lerdorf, software patent, Linus Torvalds, European Union, proposal, patent, economy, creator, MySQL, co-founder, Europe, open source, Linux

EU approves software patent changes

May 18, 2004 Officials vote for controversial changes to a draft directive, meaning that Europe is now likely to see widespread patenting of software programs. TAGS: directive, amendment, software patent, European Union, draft, vote, proposal, Europe, spokesman, open source

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