[haiku-development] Re: GPL Enabled Packages
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:48:37 +0200
On 04/09/2014 18:42, Urias McCullough wrote:
> And that's not even the only patent-encumbered technology we may use -
> at one point, for example, our MP3 decoder was likely filtered by that
> flag, and we should technically still be filtering bits of ffmpeg as
> well.
>
> However, most of the patent-encumbered bits have since been moved into
> separate outsourced packages as well. However, we probably should
> create patent-encumbered and non-patent-encumbered versions of those
> packages to distribute separately, and then repurpose this flag during
> the build process to signify which one is downloaded.
>
> I'm not sure if that can work given our current package dependency
> mechanism, but we might look into it.
And on which consideration should it exactly match?
Should those be considered in regard of US law?
Since some patents expired at different dates in US and elsewhere (the
Unisys GIF one comes to mind).
Why not European ?
But, european practice or law?
Because in Europe, software patents are definitely illegal, but they are
granted by thousands by the EU Patent Office which isn't even an EU
institution.
I don't want to waste time on sorting this out, and in fine
acknowledging a system which I consider utterly broken.
Even in the US people are starting to recognize this, including the
Supreme Court, so I don't see any need to go backwards in history.
François.
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