Re: [gNewSense-users] FAT patents

[Romel Sandoval]

I think that anti-patent policy comes from Ubuntu not from gNewSense

El sáb, 28-07-2007 a las 08:27 -0400, Ringo Kamens escribió:
> 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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