On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:01:59PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Encumbered in which country? In many countries (including the one
> where non-us.debian.org resides) software patents are not accepted.
>
> Which country is that? If it is in Europe, I am afraid
> the situation may be about to change.
Pandora is in .nl...
> I'd like to know RMS' opinion on the issue: why should I suffer from
> silly laws of other countries?
>
> What, precisely, is the issue?
Whether something that happens to be patented should be considered
non-free. Currently it is. I believe however that the proper place for
an otherwise free but patented bit of software is non-US/main.
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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