On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:06 +0000, John Halton wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 10:22 AM, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom "spot" Callaway, from Red Hat, announced [1] that Fedora won't be > > including any game of the kind of Frets on Fire, Stepmania, pydance, > > digiband, or anything of the kind of DDR or Guitar Hero, due to patent > > concerns [2]. > > > > I haven't been able to find out whether there are any equivalent > patents outside the US, so it may be this is a US-only (or perhaps > Japan also) patent. What is Debian's policy as regards software that > is encumbered by patents in one jurisdiction but not others?
I expect many places with Free Trade Agreements with the USA will 'inherit' the patent from the US. Australia and New Zealand fall in this catagory i think. kk > > John > > (TINLA) > > -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian / Ubuntu / gNewSense -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
