On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Nothing in the DFSG seems to refer to patents, so I don't see how a > patent can make a program non-free in the DFSG sense. Also, the USA > isn't the only country in the world to have software patents > (there's also Japan), so non-us doesn't seem very useful for dealing > with patents.
non-us is not anywhere outside us. It is precisely in Netherland. > I believe it is unclear whether it may be a patent infringement to > distribute a program together with a warning that use of the program > might be an infringement. It might be all right to distribute source > but not binaries, but nobody seems to know. To be DFSG, a program must be free of use. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq
