[Bug 374900] Re: Libfaac not LGPL

[john Alatalo]

This things are not easy. But I think it not Ubuntu developers job to make Ubuntu difficult to the ordinary PC user and helping Microsoft to find out everything for them.
If this bug report was not written had anyone ever noticed and think about it at all? And as Hans told maybe it are only valid in USA and Japan anyway. So why let the rest of the world suffer?

"United Kingdom patent law is interpreted to have the same effect as the
European Patent Convention such that "programs for computers" are
excluded from patentability to the extent that a patent application
relates to a computer program "as such". Current case law in the UK
states that an (alleged) invention will only be actually regarded as an
invention if it provides a contribution that is not excluded and which
is also technical. A computer program implementing a business process is
therefore not an invention, but a computer program implementing an
industrial process may well be."


Canonical are in UK so I think they would go under laws from UK to.

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Libfaac not LGPL
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374900
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