[SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

dadiego at gmx.net dadiego at gmx.net
Tue Apr 15 19:38:34 UTC 2014


But how does it  work for the other swype like keyboards available for android?

I can't see any differences to the original one. 

Am Tue Apr 15 2014 20:49:46 GMT+0200 (CEST) schrieb Michael Doube:
> On 15/04/14 19:39, Martin Kolman wrote:
> >> A quick look at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry for Swype confirms
> >> my suspicion... (2 US patents). :-(
> > Well, they look like to be US patents - so considering the Jolla is not
> > even sold in the USA & it would be an external application anyway, I
> > don't really see any issue.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't want the Jolla team to find themselves in hot water for
> distributing unlicensed functionality on the Harbour site. Nor the
> external application developer for implementing and publishing it, maybe
> even for a fee. Since Swype made a US patent, and their product is
> distributed worldwide, I would expect to find some European patents too
> (not being listed on Wikipedia is not authoritative evidence of
> non-existence). Anyway, this is non-expert handwaving. If there is a
> legal way to get something Swype-like on the Jolla, it would be great.
> 
> Michael
> 
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