On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:30:00 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:18:59PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:49:53 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:15:00PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > [...] > > > > AFAICT, the usual Debian practice to deal with software patents is not > > > > worrying about them unless they are actively enforced. > > > > > > This is not a description of Debian's practice when dealing with > > > software patents. > > > > It's what is usually said on debian-legal about the topic... > > Obviously, there's no warranty that each and every package in Debian > > follows consistently this practice. But it should, AFAIK. > > There is no such thing as consistency and I have not seen this practice > in writing anywhere. I'd be glad to see pointers to such a place.
I can provide pointers to many debian-legal messages where this Debian practice is stated (even by DDs). For instance: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00193.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00209.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00580.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00702.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/09/msg00530.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00350.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00093.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00168.html ... [...] > > Have you ever discussed this on debian-devel/debian-legal? > > Do you think it would be worth it? Do you think anybody would change > opinions? I don't know. I have mixed experiences in trying to persuade the Debian Project to realize that there's a problem in something: sometimes it worked out great and the issue was fixed, sometimes there was no way to convince people to open their eyes and the issue is still there... -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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