On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:47:28PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > In general I think the free software community would be best served by > licenses that strongly discourage patent actions. So I think it is > desirable for us to interpret the DFSG in a manner that allows for > such licenses while not violating the text of the DFSG. I agree that software patents are extremely insidious and potentially very threatening to the development and use of Free Software. I do not believe that any conceivable defense is necessarily warranted, however. Moreover, I am not at all confident that the OSL 2.0 is a good vehicle via which to communicate our intolerance of software patents. However, I do agree that it's not necessary to fight this battle right now, as the OSL 2.0 is defective in other, less controversial, respects. -- G. Branden Robinson | If I recall correctly, devfs went Debian GNU/Linux | straight from being marked as branden@debian.org | EXPERIMENTAL to OBSOLETE in the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | kernel config. -- Tore Anderson
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