On Wed, Oct 08 2008, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> So don't. Don't put any of the patent encumbered sources in main >> either -- there is nothing that says patent infringement does not >> happen as source code. >> >> That would meet the current policy as well. >> >> the patent encumbered software would then be treated much like >> we do non-free. Might not have much of an OS left, after that, but >> hey. We will have stopped pretending that patent enforcement is one of >> our responsibilities or that we expose ourself to any kind of liability >> by distributing code that may or may not be patent-encumbered. > > What? No. By identifying and trying to keep out patent-encumbered > sources, we do exactly the opposite.
What I was arguing against was having sources in main produce binaries in patent encumbered repos, and also agains packages in main build-depending on packages in patent encumbered repos. I have nothing against removing stuff that would brig liability on Debian, the developers, or the users. manoj -- If you notice that a person is deceiving you, they must not be deceiving you very well. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]