Re: Choice of venue, was: GUADEC report
MJ Ray wrote:
>On 2004-07-12 17:29:17 +0100 Matthew Garrett
><mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> MJ Ray wrote:
>>> http://perens.com/Articles/Termination.html
>> Surely GPL 7 causes the same problem (admittedly under a different set
>> of circumstances)?
>
>Is that arbitrary?
Enforcement (or lack thereof) of a patent is arbitrary, yes.
>>> It's also a practical difficulty, as we hope to be able to archive
>>> debian
>>> releases in their released state:
>>> http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/
>> Which is also a problem if a patent becomes actively enforced having
>> been previously docile.
>
>So, is this practical difficulty already solved? Where has it been
>discussed before? I'm failing to find it in lists searches, given what
>hot topics patents have been.
Packages get removed from stable due to patent awkwardness. If they're
not removed from archive.debian.org then that's probably a bug.
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