On 08/08/2020 17:56, Rosen Penev wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 1:37 PM Mauro Mozzarelli <[email protected]> wrote:
Since OpenWrt is NOT US Based and in fact it appears to be mostly
supported with EU contributions, we should be following the more liberal
EU policies.
Personally I am against software patents and I campaigned for the
decision that the EU parliament took to ban them despite significant
lobby from US corporations that would have wanted to limit and
monopolize software development.
As we know US companies even patent human genome, which is absurd.
I happen to agree but IANAL.
I am proud of the EU decision and I believe that OpenWrt should be
aligned with that spirit.
Do you believe that BUILD_PATENTED should be turned on by default?
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/config/Config-build.in#L64
I believe OpenWrt should not even *consider* placing its umbrella
organization(s) -- which are based on the U.S. -- in legal risk without
at least contacting them first and getting their approval.
Has anyone asked SPI about it yet?
--
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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