On 12-03-24 at 11:06am, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. [snip] > 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.
I agree with Andres: it is a disclaimer, and is IMO similar to "this hat ma kill you (if e.g. crossing a street and a driver gets distracted by it and runs you over)". - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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