[Thunar-dev] Some minor thingies...

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Though, to be perfectly frank, no one should have brought up the patent
> issue at all.  If we didn't know about it, and implemented it anyway,
> Apple could certainly sue someone, but they'd be more likely to just
> settle for a C&D letter that requires the feature's removal.  They might
> even not care, it being an OSS project and all.
> 
> Now that we know it's possibly patented, it becomes willful
> infringement, and if Apple chose to, they could kick some ass, at least
> in the US.  Willful infringement carries much larger penalties than
> accidental.
> 
> This is one of the reason most people will recommend that engineers and
> technology innovators not research patents at all.  (Well, up until they
> want to actually patent their work, anyway.)
> 
> But yeah, IANAL.  This is just shit I've heard.

Well, attached is a patch if anybody cares to find out if we'd run into
trouble. The attached patch enables dnd open for the shortcuts pane (the
delay isn't really configurable yet).

> 	-b

Benedikt
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