Hi Florent, On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:28:54AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:25:22AM +0200, Florent Bayle wrote: > > Le Mercredi 22 Juin 2005 02:38, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > [...] > > > > You should not remove wontfix tag, it's maintainer role to decide if he > > > > will fix the bug or not. > > > > The "wontfix" tag isn't really appropriate for an RC bug, however -- > > > either > > > it gets fixed, or the package gets removed. > > > Yes, but I think that this bug should not be RC (see below). > > > [...] > > > > Please have a look at libjpeg62 (#153467) to see how such problem is > > > > treated. > > > > > > That bug shows people expressing the opinions that > > > > > > - we don't want to be hasty in removing software based on a patent before > > > we have reason to believe it's valid and may be enforced against us - we > > > consider the existence of prior art as sufficient reason to ignore the > > > patent, since legally, the patent is invalid > > > > > > both of these things are true, but you haven't really shown how either > > > relates to libpano12, AFAICT? > > > http://www.virtualproperties.com/noipix/patents.html suggests that there is > > clear prior art in this case. I have taken this link from previous > > discution > > on debian-legal. But Robert Jordens thinks that : > > "The prior art argument is pretty much irrelevant in our question as long > > as the legal status quo is different and the patent has not been > > challanged." > > > It's why I want to know what I have to do in this case (can we let this > > software in Debian, even if the patent has not been challenged ?).
> Well, if the prior art exists which shows the patent is invalid, I'm > personally satisfied that we can ship it, but this is actually the purview > of the ftp team to decide. Is this bug still being held open for some reason? There don't seem to be any packages depending on libpano12, so I think it would be fine to remove the package from testing anyway if further investigation is needed. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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