Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> OK, no link at all except that they are both intellectual property laws.

Maybe one link is that a copyright that precedes a patent on something used
in the code may not help you if you don't have the money to fight the
claims of the patent holder. In that case, you may have the copyright to
your code, but can't use it because it violates a (later filed) patent.

Gerhard

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