[arch-dev-public] Adding {lib32-}libtxc_dxtn_s2tc in community/multilib

Gaetan Bisson bisson at archlinux.org
Mon Dec 17 04:13:10 EST 2012


[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


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