Package patent issues
Bill Cox
bill at viasic.com
Fri Jul 21 14:02:56 BST 2006
Stefan tried to forward this to this list, but the attachment got
scrubbed. Thanks for trying, Stefan!
Hi.
I wrote a simple challenge-response e-mail filter (evochallenge at
sf.net). A few people use it, and it's useful to us.
I'm thinking of packaging it for Debian. However, lately I've read that
patent law-suits pending in the U.S. between companies over who invented
challenge-response. I suspect this is why Evolution doesn't already
offer it.
Should I assume that neither Debian nor Ubuntu want anything to do with
a package which is in an area hot with software-patent litigation in the
US?
Thanks,
Bill Cox
bill at billrocks.org
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