faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

Luca Falavigna dktrkranz at debian.org
Tue May 22 07:59:00 UTC 2012


Sorry for the delay in answering to this mail!

2012/3/24 Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Given there is uncertainty about whether a patent is infringed or now,
would it be possible to ask upstream to drop that line from the
copyright statement?



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