[Python-Dev] Re: Recent IBM Patent releases

[Scott David Daniels]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Who is going to decide if a particular library would be affected by one or
> more of the 500 patents IBM released?
> 
> Skip

I am thinking more along the lines of, "our policy on accepting new code
[will/will not] be to allow new submissions which use some of that
patented code."  I believe our current policy is that the author
warrants that the code is his/her own work and not encumbered by
any patent.


-- Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org