Has been the Git / Mercurial / Bazaar idea patented?.
Some days ago I was surfing Google and Google scholar to look for academic references regarding to distributed software development. However, it was quite surprising to find a patent from the USA describing the way a distributed source code management system work.
Specifically, this patent was born in 1997 and can be found as a Google search.
After having a look at the document, it is still not clear if a piece of software such as Git or Mercurial are kind of “illegal” because of this patent in the USA…
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