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It would be great if the author (or some good soul) explicitly stated that this project doesn't violate any hashgraph patents as at first sight it's not clear.
by mirekrusin 7y ago
It would be great if the author (or some good soul) explicitly stated that this project doesn't violate any hashgraph patents as at first sight it's not clear.
- sschueller 7y agoWouldn't that fall under software patent which is not something that can be patented Europe?
- mirekrusin 7y agoI don't know, it's one of those things that you read more and know less, ie. first google result for "software patents in europe" says "yes, but no": >> "The European Patent Convention states that software is not patentable. But laws are always interpreted by courts, and in this case interpretations of the law differ. So the European Patents Office (EPO) grants software patents by declaring them as "computer implemented inventions"." ...but it's interesting, ie. what would it mean exactly if bitcoin was built on something patented? It's completely distributed so nobody to sue. Would the repo be banned on github? Let's say it would and the development would move to linux kernel like development, then what? US based exchanges would probably have some premium fee and that's it?