On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > non-US/main, since the license to the software itself is free.
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:47:57PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > But if I don't misunderstand chapter 7 (and 8) of the GPL a program > licenced under the GPL that is threatened by a patent may no longer be > DFSG-free. 7: Basically, those threats don't excuse you from the GPL requirements: if you can't grant GPL terms to someone, then you can't distribute under the GPL to anyone. This would be non-DFSG if we couldn't distribute it at all. 8: if some country makes GPL distribution impossible, it's ok to ignore that country. I'm not sure about this -- it feels like our non-US, but of course it's slightly different. -- Raul