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What to do when a giant company refuses to honor a GPL claim? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Check the FSF's violations of GNU licenses page. You can also email the FSF's licensing and compliance lab at licensing@fsf.org and our team would be happy to assist.

Modern Powerful Coreboot Build PCPartPicker in c/linuxhardware@lemmy.ml
[–] panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Dasharo works on Z690-A, yes. You may want to check compatibility reports for the CPU and GPU on their website/GitHub first, though.

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Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
 

See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.

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ESP letter to the European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on standard-essential patents (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
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Huawei reveals royalty rates for 4G, 5G, Wi-fi 6, IoT patents (www.huawei.com)
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Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense! (tutanota.com)
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Harmonization of European patent systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

On 1 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court and the unitary patent were entered into force. Simply put, this means that we will soon have software patents in Europe that are effective automatically in the entire European Union.

Hardly anyone talks about this, but it is bound to become a problem. I am currently editing relevant entries on ESP Wiki. This specific entry is about the history and dangers of harmonizing the European patent systems (spoiler alert: the EU had been trying to create such a system ever since its creation).

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Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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Transcript: The state of software patents in 2022 with Panos Alevropoulos – End Software Patents (endsoftwarepatents.org)
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Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls (ipde.com)
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Asymmetric numeral systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

This is a new ESP Wiki entry explaining the situation around software patents on a new data compression algorithm.

The original author, Jarek Duda, released his work into the public domain. Despite his intentions, Big Tech companies are attempting to patent his technology around the world. In early 2022, Microsoft registered a software patent on ANS. Google tried to do the same a few years ago but failed. We can't catch them all.

The free software community is fighting an unfair battle. Megacorporations are stealing people's work by imposing unjustified patent rights. The patent offices grant software patents despite obvious existence of prior art.

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AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent (nitter.fdn.fr)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml to c/endsoftwarepatents@lemmy.ml
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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/193809

If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

Links:

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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml to c/endsoftwarepatents@lemmy.ml
0 comments fedilink
 

If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

Links:

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