> > > I've been asked to provide the list of patents that my package > > > may/may not be possibly infriging on. > > What package? By whom? Packages are those that I'm going to upload into debian - mplayer and pound. I just thought that it's generic issue - i didn't know that I'm supposed to check patents for my packages and that's why i'm asking for clarification.
> Who is asking for this? It's not a reasonable request; in fact, it's Well, I've been asked by Front Desk. Since mplayer's copyright issues have been resolved, and the only left issue is that someone mentioned 'possible patent problems', I've been asked to get an 'OK' on patents from debian-legal before we can procede. > one that's likely to expose you to greater liability. That's what I thought. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9