Hi Paul, thanks for your reply! > Since Debian servers (ftp-master & mirrors) are located in the USA, > the license forbids it from being distributed by Debian: > > http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ries > > In addition, like Fedora, Debian probably wouldn't distribute it > because of the patent risk. Yes, but I still don't know which patent might be violated :-( > > berlios is probably technically in violation of the license. > > Some possible options for alternative distribution (IIRC all outside the USA): > > http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ > http://debian-multimedia.org/ Thanks for bringing them up! This might be a good way to distribute them. > > In addition you could just keep the packaging in your SVN repo and > expect people to build the package manually. I'll do this in any case. > > Please contribute to the various campaigns to end software patents: > > http://endsoftpatents.org/ > http://en.swpat.org/ > > PS: how did you get list.d.o instead of lists.d.o in the to address > but still get your message delivered? The first mail bounce as undeliverable, so I changed into my Sent-Folder and bounced the mail to the correct address ;-) With best wishes, Wolfi
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