Proposing changes to multimedia stack

Reinhard Tartler siretart at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 27 22:16:33 GMT 2007


Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> writes:

> Stefan Potyra wrote:
>> Hm... that wouldn't make too much sense to me, allow a patent encumbered 
>> source package but not patent encumbered binary packages *shrug*.
>
> Makes sense to me... distributing the binary requires a license from the 
> patent holder... distributing the source code does not.

On what basis do you come to this conclusion? Can you provide some
evidence for this?

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