[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Prior-Art-Database - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Ole Tange <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Prior-Art-Database
> System name: padb
> Type: 2
> 
> Description:
> After starting ToPAS (aka PoPA) I have received a mail from a guy who wants 
> to publicize some ideas so that they cannot be patented. What he needs is a 
> service to have his ideas publicized and time stamped. My suggestion to him 
> was to create a Savannah project for his ideas, but it seems the ideas are 
> not finished enough to start a whole project.
> 
> I have also had ideas that I would like not to be patented. I have published 
> my ideas at http://ole.tange.dk/projekter/kontroversielt/patent-ideer.html I 
> also suffer from the problem of lacking trustworthy timestamping. 
> 
> So now I got the idea: How about starting a Savannah project where people 
> could submit their ideas and have them anti-patent protected by using ToPAS?
> 
> The project could be categorized as a software documentation project as most 
> of the ideas will probably be software related.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> ToPAS

I switched the license to GNU FDL instead of GNU GPL, designed for
documentation.

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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