[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Marty wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
>Marty writes:
>>That sounds like a pretty subjective standard.
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>Yes.
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>>Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"?
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>Debian.
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>>Does "us" include billions of Chinese and Indians?
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>US patents have nothing to do with them. They have their own laws and will
>have to make their own decisions.
If their laws have nothing to do with Debian, then why shouldn't US laws
have nothing to do with Debian? (It seems like a double standard to me.)
Could it be that -- gasp -- Debian might be US-based?
Even if that's true (I doubt it) the Debian Social Contract and the Debian Free
Software Guidelines don't seem to include any language suggesting that a
particular nation's laws should take precedence in setting Debian policy.
I always thought of
it as international, possibly European.
Me too, which is why the non-US designation always seemed like such an anomaly.
-- hendrik
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