Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller <lhw@ring0.de> wrote:
>> Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
>>>
>>> Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those
>>> patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian
>>> patent policy.
>>>
>>> Ben.
>>>
>> S3TC is not actively enforced by S3. And I took this thread [1] as a
>> reference to create the ITP anyway. According to this thread from 2010
>> there are at least three other projects already using the S3TC
>> algorithms. And there is more than one project which depends on this
>> package. e.g. 0ad and wine
>>
>> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/12/msg00062.html
>
> I think Ben's point is that the Debian Patent Policy[1] was published
> on February 19, 2012, and therefore would supersede any previous
> consensus regarding the inclusion of patent encumbered software where
> the included patents are not being actively enforced.
>
> Personally, I agree with the posters in the thread you cited[2]. If
> this is going to be the project's official position, it may as well
> close shop.
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/legal/patent
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/12/msg00062.html
Folks, I apologize. I posted this to the wrong list.
--
Chris
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