Am 2007-04-10 13:51:13, schrieb Neil Williams:
> IANAL, but being open source, a patent lawyer would probably try to
> claim that distributing the code ALLOWS the infringement of the patent
> as if that makes Debian complicit in the infringement. Whether the code
> actually does include an implemen
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is an argument that source code can only be a description whereas
> a binary is an implementation, so only distributing binaries that
> include the claimed invention could infringe. I'm not sure whether this
> has been legally tested.
If this hol
* Kurt Roeckx:
> As far as I understand, they have been disabled because at that
> time, it seems we only cared about using those, not about
> distributing them.
Disabling it and telling users the reason in the package documentation
is sufficient, I guess.
Is there consensus that we shouldn't sh
[Cc'd to debian-legal in the hope of some informed comment.]
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:53 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Er, by definition a patent is supposed to include a complete description of
> > the invention that would permit a third-party t
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Er, by definition a patent is supposed to include a complete description of
> the invention that would permit a third-party to reimplement the invention,
> in exchange for granting the inventor exclusive rights to the invention for
> a limited time. Wo
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:51:13PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> IANAL, but being open source, a patent lawyer would probably try to
> claim that distributing the code ALLOWS the infringement of the patent
> as if that makes Debian complicit in the infringement.
Er, by definition a patent is supp
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Neil Williams:
>
> > Which are the offending libraries?
>
> Botan, Crypto++, BouncyCastle, a few Perl-related packages.
Openssl's README.Debian contains:
Some algorithms used in the library are covered by patents. As
a result,
* Neil Williams:
> Which are the offending libraries?
Botan, Crypto++, BouncyCastle, a few Perl-related packages.
> Is this mass-bug-filing intended to be against the applications that
> link against the libraries or just the offending libraries
> themselves?
Just the libraries. Debian's crypt
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:17:13 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> On Apr 10, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
> > packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA
> > algorithm -- because the p
On Apr 10, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
> packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm
> -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free. As far as I
> know, no program in Debian a
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
> packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm
> -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free. As far as I
> know, no program i
Hi Florian!
You wrote:
> I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
> packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm
> -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free. As far as I
> know, no program in Debian actually uses this code, it's
* Pierre Habouzit:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
>> packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm
>> -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free.
>
> "b
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on
> packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm
> -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free.
"because" ? I fail to see the
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