faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Andres Mejia]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna <ftpmaster at 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

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~ Andres