Blunt Jackson writes: > Does Debian classify software based on the possibility that it might > infringe on a patent... Any non-trivial software is likely to infringe at least one patent. > ...or does it classify software that has been declared by a court as > infringing on a patent... Few patents of any kind have been tested in court. The practice to date has been to avoid software against which a patent is being actively asserted. -- John Hasler