On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:34:18PM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > It's not clear that Debian really uses non-us as a workaround for US patent > related problems. Some confusion arises from packages like gpg-idea, which > is in non-us/non-free. True, gpg-idea containscode describing how to > implement the IDEA symmetric cypher, and yes at least one company claims to > have a software patent which covers IDEA. But I think gpg-idea is in non-us > because it is crypto related, not because of patent issues. I see. I thought non-US was useful for things like the DMCA too. > > I need to upload bnetd, I'm holding it until I know where. > If the copyright license meets our DFSG, it goes in main. Otherwise it goes > in non-free. Unless it has crypto, the it goes in non-us. Then it stays in main. > So I suggest you end this thread now and go work on your package. Write > anymore here and bnetd will simply wind up sitting in incoming forever > because none of the ftp-masters will want to take responsibility for adding > the package after reading all of the ominous sounding nonsense on this > mailing list about how it might potentially cause us some legal disaster. Clarifying: it's not my package, I'm just NMU'ing. Bnetd has been in Debian since June 1999. Uploading to auric. I hope not to have black suits at my door tomorrow :) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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