Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> > > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > > > may/may not be possibly infriging on. > > What package? By whom? Packages are those that I'm going to upload into debian - mplayer and pound. I just thought that it's generic issue - i didn't know that I'm supposed to chec

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > What are you trying to do with this mail? haven't you seen the replies > > from other developers pointing out my errors and misunderstandings? > I wrote it before I read them, sorry. > Anyhoo, I'm still trying to get a reply to

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:03:10PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:16:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Huh? What? XOR cursor? What's that? > > I haven't read the patent (legalese gives me headaches), but I know that > "XOR" is an abbreviation for "eXclusive Ov

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > What are you trying to do with this mail? haven't you seen the replies > > from other developers pointing out my errors and misunderstandings? > I wrote it before I read them, sorry. > Anyhoo, I'm still trying to get a reply to

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:16:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Who is Branden supposed to send the royalty checks for patent #4,197,590 > > to again? (That's the XOR cursor patent.) > > Huh? What? XOR cursor? What's that? I ha

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> What are you trying to do with this mail? haven't you seen the replies > from other developers pointing out my errors and misunderstandings? I wrote it before I read them, sorry. Anyhoo, I'm still trying to get a reply to my original mail. -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she cursed, that sh

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > > Is there some policy about which patents do we ignore and which do we > > > respect? > > > > We do not ignore any patent. > > Who is Branden supposed to send the royalty checks for patent #4,1

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:39:22AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > copyright. That mean you should inspect any file in the source. > And I should cross-reference every line in the source against every > existing patent. [...] What are you trying to do with this mail? haven't you seen the repl

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> That's not so beyond: you should be shure that the package you are building > is compliant to our DFSG and that is not violating any patent or > copyright. That mean you should inspect any file in the source. And I should cross-reference every line in the source against every existing patent.

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:03:56PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > > may/may not be possibly infriging on. > > As you can imagine this task is way beyond my capabilities, >

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > Is there some policy about which patents do we ignore and which do we > > respect? > > We do not ignore any patent. Who is Branden supposed to send the royalty checks for patent #4,197,590 to again? (That's the XOR cursor patent.) -- see shy jo pgpIA1

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That's not so beyond: you should be shure that the package you are building > is compliant to our DFSG and that is not violating any patent or > copyright. That mean you should inspect any file in the source. You're misunderstanding so

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:47:33AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:03:56PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > > may/may not be possibly infriging on. > > As you can imagine this t

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:03:56PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > Hello, > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > may/may not be possibly infriging on. > As you can imagine this task is way beyond my capabilities, > so what should one do with this? That's not so beyo

Re: new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Dariush Pietrzak, > Hello, > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > may/may not be possibly infriging on. What package? By whom? > As you can imagine this task is way beyond my capabilities, > so what should one do with this? > Are all package maintainers required

new-maintainer vs patents.

2003-05-19 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package may/may not be possibly infriging on. As you can imagine this task is way beyond my capabilities, so what should one do with this? Are all package maintainers required to do this? Is there some policy about which patents do we