Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> skribis:
> [...and now CC'ing the list because mail is hard.] > > Leo, > > On 05/11/16 19:56, Leo Famulari wrote: >> My 2¢ are quoted from the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines >> [0], which Guix does follow: >> >> [...] they're often worded so as to make it hard to tell what they >> do or don't cover, [...] > > I got the same vibes from the answers in that GitHub thread[0]. I'm > easily suspicious. > >> [...] On the other hand, we also don't object if a distributor >> chooses to omit some software in order to avoid patent risk. > > This is (partly) what prompted me to write to guix-devel in the first > place: I wasn't sure if the Guix maintainers have their own opinions on > the matter. I’d follow the FSDG’s wisdom here and include it in the distro (also I live in the EU where such patents are supposedly not applicable). That said, I would not recommend its use. Ludo’.
