reopen 159114 thanks On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>... > Hi, > > The relevant law, according to: > http://www.ivir.nl/wetten/nl/row1995.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2. The following are not regarded inventions in the sense of this law: > - discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods > - art > - rules and methods for performing mental labour, playing, or > running a company, as well as computer programs > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I suppose hardware decoders etc may still be effected by that patent. There remains the issue that _many_ Debian mirrors do mirror non-US which means that the same issue might affect one or more of them. Please make a separate "patented" and don't misuse non-US for this without checking the possible legal implications in _all_ countries where servers mirror non-US first. > manoj cu Adrian -- You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox
