Bas Wijnen wrote:
> It would be illegal for us > to distribute it to anyone else. We can of course claim that we don't know, > and assume that the programmer knew what he was doing. This is not unlikely > (actually, it's even true for me). This means we only have to stop > distributing when the programmer does indeed get sued and loses the case. It's not reasonable to claim that we don't know the mpeg-4 is patented. It's well known. > People do get sued for using the mpeg4 codec, IIUC. So does that > mean we would at least consider it non-free? Or not distributable at all? > In some countries software patent isn't recognized. IMO, we shouldn't put something in the non-free area, because it is illegal to distribute it in some countries. I think we should put them in Non-US/Main. But it seems that Debian ignore this issue. Maybe the Debian community think it won't be sued since we don't make money of the distribution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
