[Mageia-dev] [RFC] move cairo-dock to tainted because of trademark/patent issues

Thu Nov 10 12:15:21 CET 2011

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
+>
+>    
+>> Well, I think we said we would place packages with various problem
+>> related to the law, and that could be patent or something else.
+>> "
+>>          stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some
+>>          patent issues or other restrictions in other countries
+>> "
+>>
+>> The whole point is what is exactly "patent issue".
+>>
+>> One definition would be "someone found a patent related, that is
+>> currently valid". That's one possibility.
+>>      
+> With this possibility, we need to move the kernel to tainted, as some
+> people claim that they found "283 issued but not yet court-validated
+> software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially
+> be used to support patent claims against Linux" :
+> http://www.osriskmanagement.com/press_releases/press_release_080204.pdf
+>
+> So I agree that we should only use tainted for package with significant
+> risk.
+>    
+
+I agree as well.
+The tricky part is how we define/decide significant risk.
+
+-- 
+André
+
+