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Am Montag, 20. September 2021, 19:27:37 CEST schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Could we add some text to the license concepts covering patents? It |
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> > seems to have been omitted? |
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> > Is my understanding of how we manage patented software correct? |
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> I think you have the gist of it. Is there actually anything in the |
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> repo these days which is patent-encumbered? |
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media-libs/openh264 for example |
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(It right now prevents me from building firefox and chromium for the |
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experimental binary package hosting [1], since I blanket mask everything with |
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bindist restriction. That is likely a bit of overkill, it would be enough to |
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not make any binary package from it (which ends up being distributed), but |
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that function needs to still be programmed in portage.) |
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[1] Blog post with details coming soon. Please wait for it before asking |
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questions. |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |