* Raul Miller: > I'm not even sure what "indirect support of software patents" means -- > is anything other than outspoken criticism of software patents "indirect > support"?
If you try to convince your fellow Debian developers and upstream developers to drop all defenses against software patents, you either assume that the threat is not real (I don't think anyone here takes this position), or that the interests of the patent owners should dominate the free software community. Unfortunately, copyright licenses are the only defense against software patents which we can actually employ and which has a slight chance of being effective in a wide variety of jurisdictions. However, this discussion belongs to -project, because it's not just a question of software licenses, but also of Debian's long-term policies on software patents. (There's a new thread over there, finally.)