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Re: Wolfe patent on "assert chains"
> IE they don't care whether it i printed, and don't care whether it i a
> publication, they care whether it is accessible to the public and has
> been disseminated to the public.
Right. That's exactly what I meant. They are saying that "printed"
vs "electronic" doesn't matter.
However, the issue here isn't whether it matters if the GCC sources were
printed in a book someplace or just available electronically.
The issue that Robert was raising is not the "printed" part, but the
"publication" part. Specifically, if source code could be considered
a "publication". Reading the reference you gave makes it sound like they're
using the term "publication" interchangably with "technical paper" in
that they're talking about online references and databases.
Nothing in that document (I didn't go to the referenced cases) seems on
point to the issue of whether source code is a "publication".