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Kuhn: I Think I Just Got Patented

Kuhn: I Think I Just Got Patented
[Announcements] Posted Feb 3, 2010 15:40 UTC (Wed) by corbet

Bradley Kuhn grumbles about Black Duck Software's recently-announced patent on the process of finding license incompatibilities. "Indeed, the process described is so simple-minded, that it's a waste of time in my view to spend time writing a software system to do it. With a few one-off 10-line Perl programs and a few greps, I've had a computer assist me with processes like this one many times since the late 1990s." Here's the full patent for the curious.

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