Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featured audioand video player for UN*X like systems
Scripsit Nick Phillips <nwp@nz.lemon-computing.com>
> /me suggests that, in order to avoid inadvertantly becoming aware of a
> possible patent problem, we get spamassassin tuned up to class any list
> mail containing the word "patent" as spam and reject it...
> Am I joking? I'm not sure.
I think you are. Such a policy would mean that many actual license
texts could not be quoted on the list. It would be hard to explain
why APSL's you-lose-if-you-sue-us-over-any-patent clause is nonfree
if we can't even say the p-word during the argument.
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