On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 23:37 +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell a > écrit : > > The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another > > codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced > > Video Coding standards. > > I have already stated this: Debian shouldn't have anything to do > with regard to patents. We should entirely ignore them unless > directly threatened, and such issues that depend so much on the > country should be up to the end-user to deal with.
Like it or not, we can't completely ignore them in Debian. Each mirror operator needs to make their own decisions about their liability in their own country, but Debian itself needs to be careful about distributing works which have patents in the United States[1] where the patent holders are well known and have been inolved in patent litigation against individuals using their patents. Don Armstrong 1: We only care about that because that's where the primary mirrors are located. -- [Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".] I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"? -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
