[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Let's get real on W3C XForms 1.0 (why it stinks, today)
Simon, > Any chance of: > a) Sebastian or someone clarifying the IP story for XForms a summary of XForms and patents as far as a non-lawyer can give one: - There is US patent 6028938. The owner once claimed a relationship between the patent and XForms. This is potentially in the area of using XForms together with Digital Signatures, not affecting the core XForms by itself. - Other than that, we know that we don't know. I'm not aware of anyone who has disclosed a patent that affects XForms so far. - However, XForms is not much more than a mix-and-match of existing XML technologies (style sheets, XHTML etc., XML, namespaces, XML Schemas, XPath, XLink etc.) - so unless somebody has tried to patent obvious combinations between those, XForms presumably doesn't add much to the situation that already existed around software patents and internet standards. > b) patent discussion moving to a different subject line > c) Sebastian getting concrete answers on why XForms stinks? That would be indeed very nice. Thank you Simon for trying to get this discussion back on track. Hope this helps, Sebastian
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