[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?



* Blunt Jackson:

> Does Debian classify software based on the possibility that it might
> infringe on a patent (out of fear of patent lawyers), or does it
> classify software that has been declared by a court as infringing on a
> patent (or, which the maintainers of the software acknowledge is
> subject to a patent, and have the license to prove their legal
> compliance)?

More of the first.  Not too many patent dispustes end up in court.
There isn't a consistent policy, though.



Reply to: