faac_1.28-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-03-24 at 11:06am, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Luca Falavigna <ftpmaster at debian.org> 
> wrote:
> > 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.
[snip]
> 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.

I agree with Andres: it is a disclaimer, and is IMO similar to "this hat 
ma kill you (if e.g. crossing a street and a driver gets distracted by 
it and runs you over)".


 - Jonas

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