On Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:51:15 -0500 John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Celejar writes: > > It does? Here's what the "Debian Position on Software Patents" says: > > > Debian will not knowingly distribute software encumbered by patents; > > Debian contributors should not package or distribute software they know > > to infringe a patent. > > The key word is "knowingly". If you believe that a Debian package > infringes a patent of yours you have to speak up. You've snipped the context. You wrote: > statutory damages as with copyright). Thus while there is no statutory > exemption for personal use there is an effective one. Illustrative is > how Debian deals with software patents: it ignores them. So no, Debian does not "ignore" patents. Perhaps what you meant to say was that Debian does not take the initiative of investigating whether a given package infringes on any patents. And I still don't see how this is illstrative of an effective exemption for personal use. Celejar
