On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:06:20PM +0200, Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-11 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : stk > Version : 4.1.1 > Upstream Author : Perry R. Cook > * URL : http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/ > * License : see below > Description : C++ classes for audio digital signal processing > > The license might be problematic though: > > If you make a million dollars with it, give us some. If you make > compositions with it, put us in the program notes. > > Some of the concepts are covered by various patents, some known to us and > likely others which are unknown. Many of the ones known to us are
I think this should go into non-free at best. Or even better, non-free/non-US. Unless some of these patents apply incountries other than US. For example, MP3 encoders cannot be included in Debian at all because of the patent problems. - Adam
