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On Sul, 2003-04-27 at 18:35, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> AFAIK, BK is not covered by patents.  This means that anyone can
> legally write software with similar functionality, without doing
> anything illegal, or (IMHO) immoral, as long as no code is copied from

>>From conversations with Larry a long time ago I believe this is
not the case wrt to BK and patents.