On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna <ftpmas...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Copyright says: > > "Those intending to use this software module in hardware or software > products are advised that this use may infringe existing patents." > > This conflicts with http://www.debian.org/legal/patent, Policy statement §1. > > Cheers, > Luca > > > > === > > Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why > your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our > concerns.
Hi, I read the policy statement, but it's not clear to me how policy statement 1 applies to this line. The copyright disclaimer above says "...this use *may* infringe existing patents." This doesn't make it clear that this software module *does* or *does not* infringe existing patents. I don't believe this makes the situation any different than packages (both multimedia related and non-multimedia related) that are distributed in main. Note that faac is proposed for inclusion in non-free for a different reason. It has to do with this statement. "Copyright is not released for non MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products." For a discussion on the matter whether or not faac is at least redistributable, see [1]. 1. http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-April/060411.html -- ~ Andres _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers