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Re: how to donate free program for Debian?



Cognaxon <info@cognaxon.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we would like to donate our free small program called "WSQ viewer" (for Linux) to be distributed with Debian CD/DVD.
> The short description of the program is here
> http://www.cognaxon.com/index.php?page=wsqview_forlinux
> The program is only 0.5 Megabyte in size.
> 
> How can we donate our program for Debian?

Hi Robert,

In addition to the question of possible license non-freeness raised by
others, I have some impression that wavelets are a patent minefield.  If
this software was distributed by Debian, would we be subject to possible
patent enforcement issues?  As a volunteer Free Software project we have
neither the money nor the desire to license patents.

best regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
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