Hi, I think I will bring up the topic on "legal" (later, going to be with limited net access the next week). I definitely want it to be in main, I think there are lots of packages with patent problems in main, it is just unlucky that in this case the author clearly states it. Anyhow, I might search through the package and split it in free an non-free.
Thanks, Guenter On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Adam Majer wrote: > 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 >
