Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-24 17:37:06, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The question is now, how does Ubuntu has gotten the Licence? > > (Yes I know, Mark is realy rich) > > It hasn't. Which mean HE or Canotix can be sued? I do find such things not realy funny..

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2006-08-24 17:37:06, schrieb Matthew Garrett: >> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > The question is now, how does Ubuntu has gotten the Licence? >> > (Yes I know, Mark is realy rich) >> >> It hasn't. > > Which mean HE or Canotix c

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-24 17:37:06, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The question is now, how does Ubuntu has gotten the Licence? > > (Yes I know, Mark is realy rich) > > It hasn't. Which mean HE or Canotix can be sued? I do find such things not realy funny..

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question is now, how does Ubuntu has gotten the Licence? > (Yes I know, Mark is realy rich) It hasn't. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-18 21:12:59, schrieb Ben Finney: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > since you can obtaine at any moments a legal individual licence > > Really? For any patent, from whomever holds it, in any jurisdiction, Yes, I was contacting several of them and all individual licence

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-17 22:44:25, schrieb Weakish Jiang: > > > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > I thought we didn't care > > about them except if they were actively enforced, because it's completely > > impossible to avoid all patented software, considering the junk that gets > > patented. > > > Unless the patent

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian does not handel any software patents The Debian project deals with the freedom of software for users of Debian. If that freedom is restricted by law, it doesn't matter the means used. > since you can obtaine at any moments a legal individual

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 17, 2006, at 16:44, Michelle Konzack wrote: Patents on decoding something can not be enforced. How so? (Note that the unenforceability of the Welch patent against LZW decompression was due to the way the claims were drafted--not due to a general rule.) -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-16 11:04:44, schrieb Bas Wijnen: > Hello, > > When looking for some video-editing software, I found avidemux. > According to > the wnpp bug, there is a problem with license issues regarding the > MPEG2/MPEG4 > codec. There is a software patent on this codec, and a paid license is > ne

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:04:44AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Hello, > > When looking for some video-editing software, I found avidemux. According to > the wnpp bug, there is a problem with license issues regarding the MPEG2/MPEG4 > codec. There is a software patent on this codec, and a paid lic