Bug#389665: Debian and Software patents

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jens Peter Secher] > Thank you for your bug report regarding patents on IDEA, RC2, RC5, > and RC6, all present in libcrypto++. > > Debian's general stand on software patents is to ignore patents when > such patents are not being actively enforced. Right, well, I assumed that when IDEA and RC5 w

Bug#389665: Debian and Software patents

2006-09-28 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Thank you for your bug report regarding patents on IDEA, RC2, RC5, and RC6, all present in libcrypto++. Debian's general stand on software patents is to ignore patents when such patents are not being actively enforced. So Debian, as an organisation, will not remove algorithms on the sole ground t