On 6 December 2010 09:29, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > With regard to the naming of the repository dediocated to software tainted > with a patent, etc., How about "non-GPL"? I think that such a name should be > well understood by users of nearly any language, particularly if they are > familiar with the GPL. > > My2cents > -- > Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. > Registered Linux User 247790 > ICQ 41060744 >
Read the afro-mentioned thread again; most of those stuff are released under a GPL/GPL-like license (faad and faac packages for example, for playing back and encoding using the AAC audio codec, respectively), they're free open source software, but they infringe some patents. -- Ahmad Samir
