Why not just do as linus said : "let's not care about patents until they bring problems." You host everything in europe (still no patents..), and let's think about that again when europe enforces patents.
Sam PS: I don't want to start a troll, I just feel that free software gets threatened by US patents and the only way to get rid of this problem is by ignoring it... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isaac To" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:40 AM Subject: Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms > >>>>> "W" == W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > W> Are you saying even remove from non-free? Some of us have good reason > W> to use MP3 files from 3rd parties. For example: > W> http://www.banjonews.com/ > > If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and > read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the > binary code to be distributed in a Debian CD-ROM to be sold. They become > non-free because of things like source code not provided, commercial *use* > (rather than distribution) restrictions, disallowing changes to the code, > etc. This is not the case for MP3 code. And in fact, I do think that > patent encumbered things should be off from Debian once the patent holder > starts to do something "real" with the patent, given that patents is the > biggest threat to free software. > > You will be able to use MP3 players. Given that the format is so popular, > somebody is going to setup a site so that you can add a source line to your > /etc/apt/sources.list to download MP3 players, even if Debian finally > decided to stop distributing them. It just makes life of CD producers > easier, by not forcing them to either pay Thomson or render their > distribution less competitive by pruning those software. > > Regards, > Isaac. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
