richard.spindler@gmail.com wrote: >Is this intentionally left out? If yes, why? Patent issues were not very important when the DFSG was written. >Is there a consensus in the debian community about how to deal with >"Software Patents" and the inclusion of software into the debian >archive? If yes, is this consensus documented somewhere? They are often ignored unless the ftpmasters known that they are being actively inforced. -- ciao, Marco