On Mon, 06 Jul 2009, Peter Dolding wrote: > non-free is the section I mean. Items in there have restrictions > that could mean they are non free.
non-free is for things which we can distribute legally but do not meet the DFSG. Things that are controlled by patents which are actively enforced for which we do not have a license to distribute and our users to use cannot be legally distributed, and therefore cannot be in non-free. FWICT, the .NET patents[1] don't meet the bar of being actively enforced. I personally wouldn't recommend that people develop with them, but that has little to nothing to do with whether we distribute them in main or people decide to build on them. Don Armstrong 1: I honestly don't even know *which* specific patents we're talking about here; it's all awash in FUD. -- Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved. -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.ga18...@linux700.localnet> http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
