Hi Rosen, Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 00:04, Rosen Penev <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Recently there's been a pull request to get patented functionality in > the packages feed: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/12992 > > Which pointed me to this lovely description: > https://www.videolan.org/legal.html > > Two excerpts: > > In the USA, you should check out the US Copyright Office decision that > allows circumvention in some cases. > VideoLAN is NOT a US-based organization and is therefore outside US > jurisdiction. > > Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as > patentable (see French section below). > Therefore, software patents licenses do not apply on VideoLAN software. > > The commit that disabled patented packages is: > https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/dc555d003c21679c8c94ac7f5c74cbd5cd089ae0 > > This caused controversy regarding ffmpeg at the time since it meant > that minidlna would be unavailable. > > Which brings me to my question. How should BUILD_PATENTED be treated? > OpenWrt as far as I know is not US based.
OpenWrt is represented by a US non profit, so not sure where it is based. https://openwrt.org/about > The remerged OpenWrt project is legally represented by the Software in the > Public Interest (SPI) - an US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which is > managing our OpenWrt trademark, handling our donations and helping us with > legal problems. Software Freedom Conservancy (future replacement of SPI) is also US based Best Etienne > > Whenever discussion about patents arise, I usually point to Fedora > whose parent company is Red Hat, which is based in the US. There are > many things that they do not distribute that OpenWrt does for legal > reasons. Should Fedora's practices be mirrored or should a more > liberal policy regarding patented functionality be taken? > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
