Re: Open Software License v2.1
> * Raul Miller:
> > I'm not even sure what "indirect support of software patents" means --
> > is anything other than outspoken criticism of software patents "indirect
> > support"?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:17:34PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If you try to convince your fellow Debian developers and upstream
> developers to drop all defenses against software patents, you either
> assume that the threat is not real (I don't think anyone here takes
> this position), or that the interests of the patent owners should
> dominate the free software community.
Yeah, great.
Where's the context that makes this sentence of yours relevant?
> However, this discussion belongs to -project, because it's not just a
> question of software licenses, but also of Debian's long-term policies
> on software patents. (There's a new thread over there, finally.)
If you're saying that you think your interjection about implicit support
of software patents was off topic, I guess I'd have to agree.
--
Raul
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