Motorola to release JME stack under Apache Licencing

Motorola plans to release a Java Micro Edition under Apache License V2.0.

Wow. It's nice to see this happen. I worked on a J(2)ME stack and a Javacard stack eons ago - I wonder if any of my code survived :-)

/tech/IP | 03 Nov 2006 | #

JPEG now safe

Good news on the software patent front (at least regarding one patent that has been troublesome). It's now safe to write software to read/write JPEG images!

The Public Patent Foundation requested the USPTO reject the patent (4,698,672) due to new prior art discovery, the USPTO ruled and rejected the broadest claims of the patent, and Forgent has now responded by doing the right thing by abandoning the patent.

Thanks to Groklaw for pointing this out.

/tech/IP | 03 Nov 2006 | #