Hi, On 27/12/2019 08:29, Dylan Aïssi wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > > Thanks for your work as ftpmaster! > > Le ven. 27 déc. 2019 à 00:00, Thorsten Alteholz > <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> a écrit : >> >> the list of grants does not contain the right to modify and distribute the >> modifications of files under the Alliance-for-Open-Media-Patent-License-1.0. >> I am afraid that this is not compatible woth the DFSG. > > I have re-read the license and did not find the relevant part, could > you tag the problematic part of the > Alliance-for-Open-Media-Patent-License-1.0 ? > > In case of the Alliance-for-Open-Media-Patent-License-1.0 is not > compatible with the DFSG, what should we do for packages in the Debian > archive with the same license (aom) ? Similar question for packages > with embedded dav1d (firefox) ?
The AOM patent license is not a copyright license but rather an "optional extra" which grants users patent rights under some extra conditions. You would usually use it along with an additional license to cover all the copyright related parts which the DFSG is more concerned about. In aom, I put the patent license in a "Comment" section at the top and don't mention it in any "License" clauses which I think makes this distinction between copyright and patent issues a bit clearer. James
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