Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 09:49, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >Whenever you are faced with a plausible argument for both sides, the
> >one with the more expensive lawyer wins.
> 
> There is a more than plausible argument that just about everything in 
> Debian violates a software patent. Debian's lawyers (us?), AFAIK, cost 
> $0.
> 
> So, we need to decide based on more than a plausible argument.

In order to produce software, you are implicitly required to ignore
potential patent infringement unless somebody starts enforcing the
patent. Otherwise it's impossible to do anything.

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