Sorry, I seem to be opening disgusting cans all the time... Consider this
reply of somebody I contacted whether he was willing to cooperate:
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The **** uses some method which is patent pending currently. ******
University and ****** Ltd. are applying a patent concerning a graph
generation method. I should ask ******* Ltd if we can give you the source
code. Could you wait for a while?
We have not written English paper about our **** yet. However, we can send
you a paper concerning the basic theory of our method.
We also use Maxima to implement a part of our program transformation
system.
It is nice if we can find a good way of corporation.
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(I want to save him trouble, so I put stars in appropriate places.)
What should I answer. In fact, I'm very much worried about this patent
stuff. Until recently I thought maths was not patentable. (and searching
the web it seems that it still isn't, but who knows)
Martin