On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:48:14PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > So far nobody's making a big deal about the patents on the DivX encoding, > but that could change. Debian has an unwritten and unevenly enforced > policy of rejecting software implementing a patent or placing it into > non-free regardless of its license. But for patents that are not very > well-known or the holder is not being antagonistic, you can probably get > the software into main.
mmmkay, well, could I put mplayer (with or without CSS decryption) in non-free? That's basically what I'm looking for. I usually boycott the entire non-free section but when something makes it there because of bullshit patents that I can safely ignore, that doesn't actually make it non-free (the copyright holders aren't imposing anything that removes your freedom).
