Re: Patents and Multimedia codecs in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012, Alexey Eromenko wrote: I have just read the discussion about patents and the Debian Position on Software Patents [1] The Debian project includes a number of patent-encumbered Multimedia codecs (Audio+Video, at least decoders), namely MP3 and MPEG4. Potential

Re: Patents and Multimedia codecs in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012, Simon McVittie wrote: On 28/03/12 07:40, Alexey Eromenko wrote: The Debian project includes a number of patent-encumbered Multimedia codecs As mentioned in Debian's patent policy http://www.debian.org/legal/patent point 3, please refrain from posting patent

Re: Third party code license issue

2012-03-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 04 Mar 2012, Paul Elliott wrote: I do not think the authors of the DFSG intended to endorse the use of software for evil. And I don't think Evil is a Field of endeavor. Most people know, or think they know, when they are doing evil. I also do not think the the distinction between

Re: MS-PL LGPL

2010-12-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Dec 2010, Chris Harshman wrote: On 12/20/2010 1:26 AM, Rudolf Polzer wrote: First of all, this is off-topic on this list, as we talk mainly about DFSG compliance, and about legal issues with packages in Debian. Out of curiosity, *is* there a recommended list for

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2010, Guido Trotter wrote: [snip] Now, what would be the status of (unmodified) GPL python software which imports pycurl? Is this considered the same as linking, and would it have to make sure it uses the GNUTLS version, by depending on it? Without having any idea about the