On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:28:13PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, David Starner wrote: > > > > In the US they do. Surely someone in (say) the UK could package it - we > > > couldn't have it in the main section, but people living in countries where > > > software patents don't exist would be okay. > > > > The mp3 patent is a German patent also (hence it can't go into non-free). > > Why does it make a difference if it is patented only in the USA or > patented in Germany, too? I think David meant to say "non-us" rather than "non-free" ... since we don't have a "non-de" archive the German patent is a problem. German non-us mirrors would have to manually exclude these files or risk legal problems. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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