Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We need to stop 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.
This is exactly my concern as well. I have absolutely no idea whether any of the software that I package is affected by some patent. I don't see how anyone could reasonably know that, given our current patent system, without some exhaustive legal work that I'm not qualified to do and certainly am not going to spend the money on. I don't have any idea, in many cases, whether the people who released the software that I've packaged really have the legal right to release everything in those packages under the stated license, nor do I have any reasonable ability to check that. In both cases, I take the same approach: I follow the stated license and address other problems reactively as someone brings them to my attention. I don't go looking for trouble; I only review what's stated on the files that come from upstream. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]