[2012-12-17 20:09:21 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: > [2012-12-17 09:38:15 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase: > > I think plenty of stuff we have in binary in our > > repos is encumbered by patents > > You appear to be confusing patent issues with licensing issues, the > latter being what commonly concerns binary blobs (and in particular, > being granted the right to redistribute them).
Also, note that we *do* pay attention to redistribution rights as well: we ask the express permission of the copyright owners for redistributing every piece of software for which the licensing terms do not clearly grant that right. -- Gaetan
