Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Paul C. Bryan
I have attempted to locate discussion on this issue before in debian-legal (as well as debian-devel, incidentally). If this particular issue has been addressed somewhere, please be gentle and direct me to it. If not: I have noted that packages such as LAME will not be packaged in Debian

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:55:12PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: My question is: what are the guidelines on packaging code that has patented technology? Does GIMP's GIF support get distributed because Unisys is not actively enforcing its LZW patent, while LAME does not get distributed because

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:04:14 + Brian M. Carlson wrote: My question is: what are the guidelines on packaging code that has patented technology? Does GIMP's GIF support get distributed because Unisys is not actively enforcing its LZW patent, while LAME does not get distributed because

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Florian Weimer
Paul C. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is: what are the guidelines on packaging code that has patented technology? Does GIMP's GIF support JPEG is the better example. It's about in the same league as MP3, in terms of enforcement, IMHO.