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<title>Software Patents and Literary Patents - GNU Project -
Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2>Software Patents and Literary Patents</h2>
-<p>by <strong><a href="http://stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></strong></p>
-
-<p>
-<em>The first version of this article was published in
-<cite>The Guardian</cite>, of London, on June 23, 2005. It focused on
-the proposed European software patent directive.</em></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>
When politicians consider the question of software patents, they are
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ whose given name matches the last syllable of his family name.</li>
</ul>
<p>
-through the name &ldquo;Jean Valjean&rdquo;, but at least this patent
+through the name &ldquo;Jean Valjean,&rdquo; but at least this patent
would have been easy to avoid.
</p>
@@ -212,15 +215,22 @@ issuing patents on the ideas implemented in programs. Unless this is
blocked, the result will be to put all software developers in danger.
</p>
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
<hr />
-<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published
-in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free
+<p>The first version of this article was published in
+<cite>The Guardian</cite>, of London, on June 23, 2005. It focused on
+the proposed European software patent directive.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="edu-note c"><p id="fsfs">This essay is published in
+<a href="https://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free
Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard
-M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></blockquote>
+M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></div>
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
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@@ -265,7 +275,7 @@ of this article.</p>
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
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-<p>Copyright &copy; 2005, 2007, 2008, 2020 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2005, 2009, 2021 Richard Stallman</p>
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href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -275,10 +285,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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+$Date: 2021/09/05 10:10:09 $
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