On Wed, Oct 08 2008, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> So don't. Don't put any of the patent encumbered sources in main
>> either -- there is nothing that says patent infringement does not
>> happen as source code.
>>
>> That would meet the current policy as well.
>>
>> the patent encumbered software would then be treated much like
>> we do non-free. Might not have much of an OS left, after that, but
>> hey. We will have stopped pretending that patent enforcement is one of
>> our responsibilities or that we expose ourself to any kind of liability
>> by distributing code that may or may not be patent-encumbered.
>
> What? No. By identifying and trying to keep out patent-encumbered
> sources, we do exactly the opposite.
What I was arguing against was having sources in main produce
binaries in patent encumbered repos, and also agains packages in main
build-depending on packages in patent encumbered repos.
I have nothing against removing stuff that would brig liability
on Debian, the developers, or the users.
manoj
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