On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 23:40 +0900, robert song wrote:
Hello, everyone.
Now I am using Pettis-Hansen method as follows to reorder functions.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/kim/courses/cs771/papers/pettis90profile.pdf
But I found that the algorithm has its patent as below.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0459192.html
So if I use this algorithm in my codes, it will infringe the HP patent.
Does it mean that this algorithm can not be used in codes ?
Is there any method to deal with this problem ?
... Doesn't gcc do this? Just going off the patent abstract, it sounds
like gcc already infringes. But in law, details matter...