faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Mar 26 07:23:46 UTC 2012


Am 24.03.2012 16:06, schrieb Andres Mejia:
> 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.

Seconded. I don't think that this should be a valid reason for REJECT, 
either. The statement that the given software *may* infringe patents 
applies to about every other software package currently in Debian.

  - Fabian




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