Re: faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

2012-05-22 Thread Luca Falavigna
Sorry for the delay in answering to this mail! 2012/3/24 Andres Mejia amejia...@gmail.com: I read the policy statement, but it's not clear to me how policy statement 1 applies to this line. The copyright disclaimer above says ...this use *may* infringe existing patents. This doesn't make it

Re: faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

2012-05-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Given there is uncertainty about whether a patent is infringed or now, would it be possible to ask upstream to drop that line from the copyright statement? Unfortunately, the FAAC devs are not upstream to this code, it's property of MPEG. And the last sentence of the statement is This

Re: faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

2012-05-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-03-24 at 11:06am, Andres Mejia wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna ftpmas...@debian.org wrote: Copyright says:  Those intending to use this software module in hardware or software  products are advised that this use may infringe existing patents. This

Re: faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

2012-03-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 24.03.2012 16:06, schrieb Andres Mejia: I read the policy statement, but it's not clear to me how policy statement 1 applies to this line. The copyright disclaimer above says ...this use *may* infringe existing patents. This doesn't make it clear that this software module *does* or *does not*

Re: faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

2012-03-24 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna ftpmas...@debian.org wrote: Hi! Copyright says:  Those intending to use this software module in hardware or software  products are advised that this use may infringe existing patents. This conflicts with http://www.debian.org/legal/patent,