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Doesn't protect DJB

Doesn't protect DJB

Posted Nov 30, 2007 19:47 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Doesn't protect DJB by rsidd
Parent article: qmail released into the public domain

DJB and Phil Zimmerman's crypto cases were early ones, and they had lots of room to make case law invalidating legislation. In contrast, DJB would hardly be the first party to be sued for infringing a software patent, the precedents he could use to invalidate the law are already tried and gone.

Bruce


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