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		bchociej on Dec 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port o... The patent application linked numerous times in this thread is listed as abandoned after being rejected for non-patentability. Type the application or publication number into [1] for details. [1] http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair

logfromblammo on Dec 22, 2014 [–]

Mea culpa for not reading it carefully, then. I jumped right into the claims, to see how involved a non-copyright-infringing implementation would be.

If there's no patent, the poor guy doesn't have a legal leg to stand on.

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