Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Wed, 05 September 2001 10:38 UTC

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Dominikus Scherkl wrote:
> > What will we see? Clearly its possible to do - so what's
> > interesting about doing it before we can be sure we can use it?
> We indeed _can_ be sure that we can use it - anyone can use it
> unless she want to sell it (which may require licencing).

Sorry, that's not how patents work - licensing is required to use it at
all, not only if you want to sell it.

Cheers,

Ben.

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