[alicebot-general] AIML IP protection?

[Amir Michail]

Hi,

Incidentally, this is what I am working on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=168974

I probably won't reimplement AIML.  I'm using Google query syntax.
But of course, the AIML documentation contains lots of helpful ideas.

Amir

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Kim Sullivan <alicebot at seznam.cz> wrote:
> In the past years, I've became more and more interested in software licenses
>  and software patents - but I should still mention that I am not a lawyer.
>
>  Generally, I think that saying that "AIML is GPLed" is not really
>  appropriate, because the GPL is only applicable to software - a concrete
>  implementation. The -idea- of AIML as a language and the algorithms used
>  probably aren't even licensable - patentable at most (and if there were some
>  patents associated with AIML, which to my best knowledge are none, then you
>  could license the right to implement those patents).
>
>  What is licensable are the various implementations (like Program D,
>  Pandorabots...) and each program has it's own license (but nothing prevents
>  you to write your own). What is also licensable is the text of the
>  specification itself - but very probably not using the GPL (whose terms are
>  applicable only to sofware), but more likely something like the GFDL or
>  Creative Commons - but again this only applies to the text of the
>  specification, not to the ideas contained therein (unless they are patended,
>  which they aren't).
>
>  So, to sum it up - AIML is not protected by any patents (in fact, the ALICE
>  AI Foundation is more or less opposed to software patents, see
>  http://www.alicebot.org/patents.html ), and I don't even think that the AIML
>  acronym or "alicebot" are registered trademarks. So, even though the GPL
>  isn't IMHO aplicable to the specification, AIML is for all practical
>  purposes unencumbered by any intellectual property rights.
>
>  Regards,
>  Kim
>
>
>
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