On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 08:26 +0000, Chuck Peters wrote: > That's good to know! However I think many of us would be more > comfortable if the Debian systems built the source. Not sure whether this is so easy due to the patent issues. It seems the license where the patent costs are paid by Cisco for everyone only cover the blob. OTOH, Debian already distributes many binary packages which likely include stuff covered by patents (e.g. all other h264 codecs) and I guess we silently assume that users will have to pay any license fees on their own. So we could do so the same here.
The main problem in this whole case (apart form blobs / proprietary software slipping unnoted into Debian) seems Mozilla's politics, which more and more says goodbye to the values of FLOSS. Cheers, Chris.
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