License/Patent clarity? [Was: Re: [SCIM] SCIM and Wubi

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  Wubi has two version, Wubi 86 and Wubi 98. They are two different
patents. Wubi 86 has expired since 2000. The Wubi table in
scim-tables-zh is a Wubi 86 table. So it has no patent issue.

Regards
James Su

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:24:33 -0700 (PDT), Hideki Hiura
<hiura at openi18n.org> wrote:
> James,
> 
> > From: James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn>
> > Oh, yes, you are right. Now I understand. And the good news is, scim
> > table module can handle this issue already. If you give me the 1-to-1
> > table, I can try to make a dvorak-wubi table.
> 
> I have a naive question on the license/patent clarity on WuBi.
> 
> IIIMF has WuBI for years but only shipped with its distribution on
> Solaris and Java Desktop System under redistribution license. Because
> it's just a table, I tried but I was unable to opensource WuBi,
> because I was told that the idea/concept of WuBi is patented or
> strictly licensed or something legal which prevented me to get through
> the clearance.
> 
> If this is just that I got a wrong information, it would be great!
> so that I can revive the project to opensource WuBi, but otherwise...
> 
> Would someone who has an access to the patent infomation in China
> be possible to check the patent database?
> 
> I happened to get an AI from Japanese govt party, on the way back from
> Beijing, to investigate input method related patents, triggered by the
> meeting with CESI/SAC two weeks ago,which you were a part of it,
> James.  So far I've skimmed only roughly through the patents filed in
> the U.S. and Japan, and found over 400 patents on input methods were
> filed in Japan.  They apparently cover quite bit of technology from
> basic to advanced.
> 
> Patent clearance is very important part of security, and any one of
> patent infringements could be a show-stopper.
> 
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