From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25AFE158012 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 892D5E083D; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08E39E0822 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:25:54 +0000 (UTC) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev Cc: licenses@gentoo.org, Rich Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:25:40 +0200 Message-ID: <2054816.G923GbCHz0@noumea> Organization: Gentoo Linux In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart272059264.ifERbkFSEj"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 76112d84-0a0c-4093-ab04-9e48b00dd454 X-Archives-Hash: 0eb75150e2cebe74f9a6153822f331e4 --nextPart272059264.ifERbkFSEj Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; protected-headers="v1" From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev Cc: licenses@gentoo.org, Rich Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:25:40 +0200 Message-ID: <2054816.G923GbCHz0@noumea> Organization: Gentoo Linux In-Reply-To: References: Am Montag, 20. September 2021, 19:27:37 CEST schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM Alec Warner wrote: > > Could we add some text to the license concepts covering patents? It > > seems to have been omitted? > > Is my understanding of how we manage patented software correct? >=20 > I think you have the gist of it. Is there actually anything in the > repo these days which is patent-encumbered?=20 media-libs/openh264 for example (It right now prevents me from building firefox and chromium for the=20 experimental binary package hosting [1], since I blanket mask everything wi= th=20 bindist restriction. That is likely a bit of overkill, it would be enough t= o=20 not make any binary package from it (which ends up being distributed), but= =20 that function needs to still be programmed in portage.) [1] Blog post with details coming soon. Please wait for it before asking=20 questions. =2D-=20 Andreas K. H=FCttel dilfridge@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer=20 (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) --nextPart272059264.ifERbkFSEj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE6W4INB9YeKX6Qpi1TEn3nlTQogYFAmFJ+XQACgkQTEn3nlTQ ogY+zw//ZQUg6kufi1KF0fUNeF/gafkWJDT0Pzp2Me4C+P2yrG2y5gWEpL+moy4N ATVprOyCM4iNIs4Y19js87y2biLN0xg1m8x/0HIcqo7UC2ANAoGXbbq33KiRdZ2H ogKnmiHvT9GCHdLIcfMVV88e5utoDGDxu4/iuhQCOMugUjK/opjSl4/EySFY81Ed /WnKSBbnptl6jBWDK68EzpF/mYTpP8bL6Et6fVPsQLVcyXtqeEZvQf3CvDzK8NZB +2cHE97sN1NnqafI/+HDICMeQM5bmsdbbqP+k7hs8VzDjwAfLubQs8fdOldVanPI THOVoRhl+Q32FZr8F71IHLzXQzLIcf9SSK9M36fECQsX/l3rPTjg2TxvNTT387oX TmZoGL/7kVwMnTrZOr7RgGXnn2OwZp08bDlL0PuW78DoVTCgFuvfkBTj42SGt19m FRe2NjrVpzqduc7YMqOjla9hiDp+9FbASZX3T0GnvIFPsMub35BGJ3yLP8cF0YHX KDGyZCS8HuRv0Wx1eW1ftQlCPG2vtYK8bJBDDJOOS8cESvfncHepajdZVfQSOBpz 1JOVZ7KOuVNcwaj1rjAusCGQxZgvNETf5bHfvFWMwMyZw6CQQUtrkLA24g25fIO/ wOgOsPYmlNdqQ2GiZFkd+Eh6p87lKUQdK7iSiCoIZsx4nxAYpq4= =oPP2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart272059264.ifERbkFSEj--