Re: intent to package BladeEnc
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:11:49PM -0700, Robert@murphy.debian.org wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> >Robert Woodcock wrote:
> >> The patent was granted in the US and Germany.
> >>
> >> This rules out both non-free and non-us, as both would be distributing the
> >> product from Germany.
> >
> >non-us is in .nl, isn't it?
>
> Yeah, but it's still mirrored in .de.
But does the patent restrict distribution? Or just use?
If it only restricts use (which is what I thought patents did), then
downloading it from a .de ftp site is fine, you just can't use the program
in .de.
--
Chris Butler
<chrisb@sandy.force9.co.uk>
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