gEDA-dev: Newbie developer guidelines.

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

On 4/25/07, Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism.co.za> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:20:27PM +0200, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> > Or a new topological router algorithm for PCB... ;)
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> I don't want to be a party pooper, but what is the patent situation re
> topological autorouting?  I lamely googled it a couple weeks ago and it
> seemed like Cadence (?) had some sort of patent there.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=Q3Z4AAAAEBAJ&dq=7013448

And, yes, it is Cadence. But I think it is possible to learn a lot
from the patent text in order to either write around it, or write
enough not to violate it. Anyway, patent violations for private use
(DIY) was never covered by the patent system, or?

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Svenn