On Friday 13 June 2003 02:36 am, guenter geiger wrote: > 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.
Discussion on -legal sounds good. If you know of other packages with patent problems in main, however, this is a serious issue that should be pointed out... Legal obfuscation is not really a good policy for Debian to recommend. > Anyhow, I might search through the package and split it in free an > non-free. This sounds like a good option to me, if it is possible. - Keegan
