On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:13:06AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 17.10.2012 18:37, schrieb Bob Bib: > >This package has been rejected by ftpmaster as violating Debian patents > >policy, > >but has the issue been reviewed by the Debain patent expert person, as > >described in the policy statements? > > Good question, but honestly I don't know the answer.
The fact that "it may infringe existing patents" is not, per se, against the patent policy. In fact, that statement is true for every package in the archive: *alleged* sowftware patent violations can be found in almost any piece of software out there. Luca, can you please reconsider? -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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