Re: Splitting non-US into crypto and patent a good idea?

2001-10-13 Thread Anthony Towns 
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 04:23:11PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
 Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
 IIRC, Debian does not provide patented software (no MP3 encoder,
 no DeCSS, etc).
  We do. Look at gif handling code for example.
   I forgot about gif. Do you have any other examples?

gpg-idea, openssl

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Splitting non-US into crypto and patent a good idea?

2001-10-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman 
Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
   IIRC, Debian does not provide patented software (no MP3 encoder,
   no DeCSS, etc).

We do. Look at gif handling code for example.

Wichert.

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Re: Splitting non-US into crypto and patent a good idea?

2001-10-12 Thread Jérôme Marant 
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
IIRC, Debian does not provide patented software (no MP3 encoder,
no DeCSS, etc).
 
 We do. Look at gif handling code for example.

  I forgot about gif. Do you have any other examples?

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Re: Splitting non-US into crypto and patent a good idea?

2001-10-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman 
Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
   I forgot about gif. Do you have any other examples?

I haven't memorized the list of packages on non-US, but you could
esaily download the Packages files for it and look through the
descriptions.

Wichert.

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