On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:28 -0600, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
As for the "Who care's what patent problems it might have in the US?" part - I care. US users care. US mirrors care.
The point is that once we care about patents we'll have to remove a lot of packages like openssl, mpeg/mp4 stuff, libdvdcss and who knows what else. It's virtually impossible to distribute software without patent issues. But there concern sound very much like we only care about patents when its from the evil microsoft company. So we should either care about patents with all its consequences or we should simply ignore them.
Well, it's always a razor's edge with this stuff. Considering moonlight is NOT currently in the repos, and really only covers a handful of users, the added issues due to potential legal action is too much. If we're balancing the cost/benefit thing here, I don't think the benefit is enough, especially considering it's downloadble from Novell without the potential of legal action.