Re: Copyright problems for the opensource reimplementation of a closed-source library (ITP #679504)

To: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Copyright problems for the opensource reimplementation of a closed-source library (ITP #679504)
From: Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd@chmd.fr>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:58:45 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> We are not lawyers, but see the recent Google v. Oracle lawsuit.
> Of course that's only USA law and USA court, but you cannot get one answer
> for the whole world.

I completely understand that there are no lawyers on this mailing list.

Would the "borderline" status of this library prevent it to be
included in Debian?

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