On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > I plan to file a couple of bugs (not too many, probably a dozen) on > packages which contain implementations of the patented IDEA algorithm > -- because the presence of that code makes them non-free. "because" ? I fail to see the logic in there > As far as I know, no program in Debian actually uses this code, it's > just inherited from upstream libraries. AFAICT Debian just ignores patents, else we would have to remove maybe 70% of the archive. Are IDEA patents actively enforced ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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