Am Montag, 20. September 2021, 19:27:37 CEST schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Could we add some text to the license concepts covering patents? It > > seems to have been omitted? > > Is my understanding of how we manage patented software correct? > > I think you have the gist of it. Is there actually anything in the > repo these days which is patent-encumbered?
media-libs/openh264 for example (It right now prevents me from building firefox and chromium for the experimental binary package hosting [1], since I blanket mask everything with bindist restriction. That is likely a bit of overkill, it would be enough to not make any binary package from it (which ends up being distributed), but that function needs to still be programmed in portage.) [1] Blog post with details coming soon. Please wait for it before asking questions. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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