[Bug 35905] Apparently Wine is Being Patented By the Company That Runs Behind Longene Project

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Thu Apr 3 17:00:37 CDT 2014


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35905

--- Comment #3 from Jeff Bai <jeffbaichina at members.fsf.org> ---
Thanks for the follow up, and seriously, wow... this just blown my mind away!
:-(

(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #2)
> Hello folks,
> 
> if you search patent databases you'll find a lot more patent application
> filings linked to Wine and WinCE/ARM:
> 
> CN102364433B "Method on ARM processors Wine build tools transplant"
> 
> CN102364442A "Method for transplanting Wine from x86 to advanced risc
> machine (ARM) platform"
> 
> CN102331968A "WINE (wine is not an emulator) compatibility automatic
> checking method on OMS (open mobile system) platform"
> 
> CN102364435A "Method for realizing application program interface (API) of
> WinCE"
> 
> CN102393816A "Full-screen display method for WinCE (Windows CE) applied on
> OMS (open mobile system)"
> 
> CN102331927A "Method for integrating soft keyboard input of Wine and Android
> mobile phone"
> 
> CN102364434A "Method for integrating Wine and Android mouse input"
> 
> CN102331928A "Method of source code level compatible hybrid API (application
> programming interface)"
> 
> Various patent applications claim to use parts/concepts of Wine (of course
> 'tailored' to the actual use case).
> 
> One could probably dig up hundreds of such patent applications linked to the
> Wine project, given enough time.
> 
> Regards

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