nicolas vigier a écrit :
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:Well, I think we said we would place packages with various problem related to the law, and that could be patent or something else. " stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some patent issues or other restrictions in other countries " The whole point is what is exactly "patent issue". One definition would be "someone found a patent related, that is currently valid". That's one possibility.With this possibility, we need to move the kernel to tainted, as some people claim that they found "283 issued but not yet court-validated software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially be used to support patent claims against Linux" : http://www.osriskmanagement.com/press_releases/press_release_080204.pdf So I agree that we should only use tainted for package with significant risk.
I agree as well. The tricky part is how we define/decide significant risk. -- André
