Re: New idea for finessing patent issues (was: lame (again!))
On 19-May-01, 23:03 (CDT), John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, Steve Greenland wrote:
> >2a. It basically confirms that we think these patents are valid[1], and
> >thus does not "stay true to our ideals".
>
> It can be worded that Debian disagrees strongly with the idea of patented
> software, but pragmatically is providing it because of a percieved
> utility. Sort of like RMS's "non-free" question in base, except a bit
> longer and more preachy :)
Yeah, but we don't ship non-free stuff in main. We could just as well
add a similar click though mechanism for non-free stuff as well: "The
license for this software prohibits x, y, and z. If you swear you won't
do any of those things, it's just as good a free software".
Steve
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