
*sigh* CC'ing to the rest of haskell-cafe for completeness. I need to
change 'reply all' to a default in my email I guess.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:19 PM, austin seipp
Hello,
Realistically, there probably is. Considering everything down to linked lists are patented by the USPO, I'd be willing to bet (at least a dollar or two) that there are many patents out there that apply to the code used in GHC. I don't know if you could say anything different about *any* nontrivial software, to be quite honest.
IANAL however, so I won't attempt to claim in what countries these patents apply, nor could I cite you patent numbers (legalese being terse and software patents so seemingly open to interpretation sometimes, it would be hard to narrow down anyway I think.)
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Shakthi Kannan
wrote: Hi,
I would like to know if there are any software algorithms used in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler that have been patented? If yes, in which countries do they apply?
Just curious to know.
SK
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