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Re: Is this patch OK for main?



On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

> [I'm probably repeating myself, but this is for the benefit of debian-legal
> readers and may help to shorten discussion]
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 16:10:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > could someone please tell me if this patch:
> > - contains any code with legal problems (e.g. patents)?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> > - forces the package to go to non-US?
>
> It doesn't. It essentially has two parts
>...

Thanks for the explanations, I'll include the patch in the near future in
util-linux.

> will be incompatible with the current one as reported in e.g. #36939), and
> there's the issue that if there were a problem, there'd be a problem with
> having the diff posted to a mailing list hosted in the US and archived on
> webservers hosted in the US.

Ups, sorry! I'll think of this in the future before sending such a mail.

> Ray

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Adrian

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