17 Dec
2012
17 Dec
'12
9:13 a.m.
[2012-12-17 20:09:21 +1100] Gaetan Bisson:
[2012-12-17 09:38:15 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase:
I think plenty of stuff we have in binary in our repos is encumbered by patents
You appear to be confusing patent issues with licensing issues, the latter being what commonly concerns binary blobs (and in particular, being granted the right to redistribute them).
Also, note that we *do* pay attention to redistribution rights as well: we ask the express permission of the copyright owners for redistributing every piece of software for which the licensing terms do not clearly grant that right. -- Gaetan