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Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms



Isaac writes:
> If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and
> read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the
> binary code to be distributed in a Debian CD-ROM to be sold.

Not true.  One of the reasons for a package to go into non-free is
precisely because it may _not_ be sold.  If you are putting all of non-free
on CDs and selling them you are almost certainly infringing some copyrights.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin



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