Re: Taking a position on anti-patent licenses (was ' Re: Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license')
Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't think that Josh has said that -- especially given that you do not
> have to have a copyright license to *use* a program. [...]
That "given" was only clarified in English law fairly recently, added by
implementing some EU directive in the 1990s IIRC. In general, it seems
a little risky to rely on it. If we know a particular place's copyright
law is in use, or if someone smarter says "this holds everywhere and
here's references" then I'd be happy with that broad claim. :-/
Anyway, most debian developers create and distribute derived works, don't
they? So, we have to worry about more than use anyway...
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