Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Qua, 2007-01-31 às 09:21 +0100, Martin Schulze escreveu: > > I seem to recall Keving mentioning a "patent minefield", which I would > > interpret not only as an area of computer science in which several > > patents exist but also that they are tried to be enforced. If this is > > the case, Debian should be careful. See the mp3 encoder issue, Debian > > hasn't been challenged by the patent holder but still it doesn't > > distribute them instead of ignoring the patents as your text would assume. > > You know, this is something I've been thinking for some time... There > are places where software patents are not valid and cannot be enforced > (Brazil being one of them, for instance). Isn't it time to think about a > non-epatents repository hosted in one of this places?
We have backports.org, we have volatile.debian.net, we have debian-unofficial.org, we have debian-multimedia.org, we have apt-get.org. I don't know of a reason why there shouldn't be somebody starting a Debian package repository on patented-debian.org hosted in Brazil. Regards, Joey -- Ten years and still binary compatible. -- XFree86 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]