Hello, On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:15:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:34:14PM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote: > > Speaking as the "upstream" - it would also be definately much better if > > everyone used just the same one tarball and there wasn't a "normal source > > tarball" and "source tarball sans 'K' files". > > Speaking as a free software developer and a member of the Debian Projct, > it would definitely be much better if you could guarantee that people > distributing your source tarball wouldn't be sued for patent > infringement by Unisys for doing so. I have a problem grabbing the meaning of your words. SUN offers pieces of code, namely the OO binaries, and the user of this code risks a patent suit for using it? That's hard to understand, and should probably relocate OO immediately into the bit bucket directory until this problem is solved. Apart from that, I don't know how anyone can make a "guarantee" since what may be legal today may as well be illegal tomorrow. It is very desirable to ship code that has no obvious way of backfiring on the developer/user/... nonetheless :-| Best, --Toni++
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