Re: Splitting non-US into "crypto" and "patent" a good idea?

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Subject: Re: Splitting non-US into "crypto" and "patent" a good idea?
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:08:05 +0200
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Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
>   IIRC, Debian does not provide patented software (no MP3 encoder,
>   no DeCSS, etc).

We do. Look at gif handling code for example.

Wichert.

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