Re: [gNewSense-users] FAT patents

[Ringo Kamens]

I thought we had an anti-patent policy which explains the lack of MP3
libraries/support in the repositories?
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 7/28/07, Brian Brazil <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Chris Andrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I picked this up from the Gobuntu list.  May be worthy of consideration.
>
> Thus far with gNewSense we have taken no stance on patents. That is we
> don't explicitly add or remove any piece of software due to patents.
> If it happens to be removed anyway (e.g. due to being sourceless or in
> multiverse/restricted) that's coincidental.
>
> Software patents are a scourge on Free Software, and if we were to
> heed them than we'd not have any software at all, as it is impossible
> to know if any given piece of software is covered by a patent or
> patents in some jurisdiction.
>
> Brian
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Markus Laire <address@hidden>
> > Date: 27-Jul-2007 11:44
> > Subject: Re: FAT patents (was Re: Patents)
> > To:
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > On 7/27/07, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > it will need to remove everything, including Emacs, and evaporate.
> > >
> > > No. Just Mono, and any other Microsoft technology.
> >
> > What about FAT (especially long filename support) which is patented
> > Microsoft technology?
> >
> > According to Wikipedia [1], at least long filenames in FAT seems to be
> > patented, so should that be removed from gobuntu?
> >
> > [1]
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT_licensing
> >
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