[Fsf-collab] Random thoughts...

[Jason Self]

Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org> wrote ..
 
> I've seen folks talking about the inclusion of arguably non-free codecs in
> Debian's main repository, but this is a different issue in that the software
> in question is non-free because of patents rather than licensing. Debian
> already addresses this here:
> 
>     http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs

And, from reading the Patent section in the FSF's guidelines [1] they don't
require distributions to remove software because of patent problems but nor do
they object if a distribution elects to do so.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
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