I think that anti-patent policy comes from Ubuntu not from gNewSense El sáb, 28-07-2007 a las 08:27 -0400, Ringo Kamens escribió: > I thought we had an anti-patent policy which explains the lack of MP3 > libraries/support in the repositories? > Comrade Ringo Kamens > > On 7/28/07, Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/27/07, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I picked this up from the Gobuntu list. May be worthy of consideration. > > > > Thus far with gNewSense we have taken no stance on patents. That is we > > don't explicitly add or remove any piece of software due to patents. > > If it happens to be removed anyway (e.g. due to being sourceless or in > > multiverse/restricted) that's coincidental. > > > > Software patents are a scourge on Free Software, and if we were to > > heed them than we'd not have any software at all, as it is impossible > > to know if any given piece of software is covered by a patent or > > patents in some jurisdiction. > > > > Brian > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 27-Jul-2007 11:44 > > > Subject: Re: FAT patents (was Re: Patents) > > > To: > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On 7/27/07, Keith G. Robertson-Turner > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > it will need to remove everything, including Emacs, and evaporate. > > > > > > > > No. Just Mono, and any other Microsoft technology. > > > > > > What about FAT (especially long filename support) which is patented > > > Microsoft technology? > > > > > > According to Wikipedia [1], at least long filenames in FAT seems to be > > > patented, so should that be removed from gobuntu? > > > > > > [1] > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT_licensing > > > > > > -- > > > Markus Laire > > > > > > -- > > > Gobuntu-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/gobuntu-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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