Maciej Sobczak wrote:
Mateusz Loskot wrote:
And I won't break Boost license and, ideally, any patents too.
It's just your hope.
Maciej, Absolutely right. I'm a kind of inveterate optimist, here :-)
It's estimated that this year over 40000 patents in the software domain will be issued in total (in USA). Forty thousands - just in case you doubt all these zeros. All this in one year. Plus all those that were already issued previously. (Surely, some of them are duplicates or at least largely overlapping, but who cares.)
Definitely, you've touched a very important issue but I don't think there is any resolution at the moment. I mean, the only I can see is to stop programming :-)
I bet that you are breaking some number of these patents anyway, no matter what you do. In fact, it would be interesting to know how many patents you are breaking on average per each 1kLOC of code that you think you created. :-)
Exactly. I think Seweryn from pl.comp.lang.c could be interested in developing some statistics about it ;-) In the meantime, I'm going to consider Boost as free of patented garbage ;-) Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net