Previously Adam Heath wrote: > What if the non-free program contains source, but is non-free for other > reasons?
The exact restrictions are listed in some legal documentation; you can find it at the URL I gave earlier. We could indeed consider this on a per-package basis, but this would mean a lot of extra work for our ftpmaster team, which I don't think is warranted for non-free software. > > > Programs which use patented algorithms that have a restrictied > > license also need to be stored on "non-us", since that is location > > on a site where it is not allowed to patent algorithms. > > Maybe a few examples would help. Examples: LZW, IDEA, mp3 encoding (although there is still some controversy if that algorithm really is patented). RSA used to be in this category but its patent expired. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
