On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:28:49 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed,17.Mar.10, 16:44:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free > > tree, and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > > Most of the stuff there is DFSG-free, but infringes some patents. Interesting. From the DFSG FAQ: "Some software might infringe patents in jurisdictions in which so-called software patents are allowed. Even though only end users actually run the software, and distributors do not in fact actually engage in the patented process, distributors might be held liable in such a jurisdiction. Debian makes no serious attempt to check for patent violations, and handles this issue in a haphazard and case-by-case fashion. (In fact, checking for this is in practice impossible. If everyone checked for software patents, all software production would grind to a halt.)" http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html So apparently the stuff could actually be included in the official archive, without violating the social contract? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100318090642.50c813ca.cele...@gmail.com
