On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller <l...@ring0.de> wrote: > Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings: >> >> Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those >> patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian >> patent policy. >> >> Ben. >> > S3TC is not actively enforced by S3. And I took this thread [1] as a > reference to create the ITP anyway. According to this thread from 2010 > there are at least three other projects already using the S3TC > algorithms. And there is more than one project which depends on this > package. e.g. 0ad and wine > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/12/msg00062.html
I think Ben's point is that the Debian Patent Policy[1] was published on February 19, 2012, and therefore would supersede any previous consensus regarding the inclusion of patent encumbered software where the included patents are not being actively enforced. Personally, I agree with the posters in the thread you cited[2]. If this is going to be the project's official position, it may as well close shop. [1] http://www.debian.org/legal/patent [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/12/msg00062.html P.S. My apologies to those who may be seeing this on debian-user as well. I accidentally posted my reply there by mistake. I am posting it here, as well, for the benefit of those who are not on debian-user. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYuqfUgTm=a__x6eei2p+zktxuy1qxfawzo7zrmxfxr...@mail.gmail.com
