On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:11 AM Etienne Champetier <champetier.etie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Rosen, > > Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 00:04, Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Recently there's been a pull request to get patented functionality in > > the packages feed: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/12992 > > > > Which pointed me to this lovely description: > > https://www.videolan.org/legal.html > > > > Two excerpts: > > > > In the USA, you should check out the US Copyright Office decision that > > allows circumvention in some cases. > > VideoLAN is NOT a US-based organization and is therefore outside US > > jurisdiction. > > > > Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as > > patentable (see French section below). > > Therefore, software patents licenses do not apply on VideoLAN software. > > > > The commit that disabled patented packages is: > > https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/dc555d003c21679c8c94ac7f5c74cbd5cd089ae0 > > > > This caused controversy regarding ffmpeg at the time since it meant > > that minidlna would be unavailable. > > > > Which brings me to my question. How should BUILD_PATENTED be treated? > > OpenWrt as far as I know is not US based. > > OpenWrt is represented by a US non profit, so not sure where it is based. > https://openwrt.org/about > > The remerged OpenWrt project is legally represented by the Software in the > > Public Interest (SPI) - an US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which is > > managing our OpenWrt trademark, handling our donations and helping us with > > legal problems. > > Software Freedom Conservancy (future replacement of SPI) is also US based Sounds problematic then. > > Best > > Etienne > > > > > Whenever discussion about patents arise, I usually point to Fedora > > whose parent company is Red Hat, which is based in the US. There are > > many things that they do not distribute that OpenWrt does for legal > > reasons. Should Fedora's practices be mirrored or should a more > > liberal policy regarding patented functionality be taken? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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