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+ <B>Frank Griffin</B>
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+ <I>Tue Oct 2 14:02:56 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On 10/02/2012 07:50 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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+</I>&gt;<i> We have software in 4 different flavors:
+</I>&gt;<i> 1. free software (FOSS), most of them distributed under any of the GPL versions
+</I>&gt;<i> 2. non-free software, meaning they can not distributed under such
+</I>&gt;<i> licenses as the GPL. Mostly it's closed source software (like firmware
+</I>&gt;<i> for devices like graphic cards or some wifi chips)
+</I>&gt;<i> 3. tainted software, this is cost-free but patented software. In
+</I>&gt;<i> countries which obey software patents (like USA) it is not allowed to
+</I>&gt;<i> be distributed.
+</I>&gt;<i> 4. then there is software which is non-free AND tainted.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Of course this special point #4 is a bit bureaucratic. As &quot;tainted&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i> (aka patented) is the stronger restriction than non-free we should
+</I>&gt;<i> also place faac into &quot;tainted&quot; as it matches the sentence from the
+</I>&gt;<i> MGA1 notes anyway (as quoted in Christian's mail).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In any way I agree that this more or less academical dispute about
+</I>&gt;<i> faac should not make it impossible to make faac available.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>That's my point. I get that the official definition says that tainted
+stuff should be FOSS. I just don't understand WHY that restriction is
+of interest to anybody.
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