On 2022-12-15 at 19:34, operation.privacyenforcement@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> operation.privacyenforcement@mailbox.org wrote: >>> Releasing anything of requested documents is not desired yet. The >>> idea is not patented yet and will make the developers a high >>> value target for a lot of agencies worldwide. >> >> If your project is going to be patented, it can't be part of Debian >> unless you want to give a patent license to everyone in the world, >> which defeats the point of patenting it in the first place. > > A patent can protect only a brand or product name. The only thing I'm aware of that is called a "patent" and can be applied to branding / etc. like that is a design patent, which is typically very different and I don't see how it could be applied to software (though it could potentially be applied to UI). Trademarks, et cetera, might be applicable - but they are not patents. >>> I am looking for people, developers, companies that would be >>> interested in using or developing such a solution, planning a >>> commercial high price launch on the market, licensed will be >>> current revisions. Older revisions with less features or security >>> will be released under an open source license. If this is >>> impossible I am open minded to release the idea confidentially to >>> a trustworthy developer group of an open source project to let >>> them develop it and make it available as FLOSS completely for >>> everyone. It needs to be built before privacy is dead, with or >>> without earning money. It needs to be enforced before we will >>> loose privacy forever. >> >>> Governments, police, politicians will be excluded via license in >>> any case. >> >> None of the open source licenses that Debian will accept can be >> limited in that way, so, again, Debian is not the home for your >> project. > > This > >>> I am open minded to release the idea confidentially to a >>> trustworthy developer group of an open source project to let them >>> develop it and make it available as FLOSS completely for >>> everyone. It needsto be built before privacy is dead, with or >>> without earning money. It needsto be enforced before we will >>> loose privacy forever. > > would match Debians policies? That part could, but >>> Governments, police, politicians will be excluded via license in >>> any case. definitely would not. Even a license statement that "This software shall be used for Good, not Evil" is deemed to not be DFSG-free; a license which explicitly excludes a category of user, or a field of endeavor, would definitely not qualify. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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