Debian Developers - Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Florian Weimer

2004-12-27, 5:52 pm

* Blunt Jackson:

> Does Debian classify software based on the possibility that it might
> infringe on a patent (out of fear of patent lawyers), or does it
> classify software that has been declared by a court as infringing on a
> patent (or, which the maintainers of the software acknowledge is
> subject to a patent, and have the license to prove their legal
> compliance)?

More of the first. Not too many patent dispustes end up in court.
There isn't a consistent policy, though.

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