Hello Ben and *,
Am 2008-10-08 00:07:18, schrieb Ben Finney:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> writes:
>
> > The best reference for patent enforcments I have is
> > http://www.mpegla.com/news.cfm.
> >
> > However none of those lawsuits are comparable to debian, becuase:
> >
> > a) debian/spi is a non-profit organisation
> > b) debian does not sell hardware
>
> Many recipients of Debian do meet one or both of those descriptions.
First of all, there are a waste minority (I thing under 0.1%) and I see
this as discrimination of private users.
And of course, I have only "main" in my sources. list and sometimes I
forget that "non-free" exist (e.g. bash-doc and others) :-/
> The DFSG require the works distributed in Debian be free for all
> recipients of Debian, not just for the Debian project.
But this would mean, I am discriminated, not to use mpeg-encoding
privately.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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