Re: intent to package BladeEnc
Chris Butler <chrisb@sandy.force9.co.uk> writes:
> 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.
By the same token, distributing from the US should then also be fine.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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