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Re: Patent nonsense: zstd
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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Re: Patent nonsense: zstd |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:26:49 +0100 |
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Leo,
On 05/11/16 19:56, Leo Famulari wrote:
> My 2¢ are quoted from the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines
> [0], which Guix does follow:
>
> [...] they're often worded so as to make it hard to tell what they
> do or don't cover, [...]
I got the same vibes from the answers in that GitHub thread[0]. I'm
easily suspicious.
> [...] On the other hand, we also don't object if a distributor
> chooses to omit some software in order to avoid patent risk.
This is (partly) what prompted me to write to guix-devel in the first
place: I wasn't sure if the Guix maintainers have their own opinions on
the matter.
> But like I said, my opinion on this subject is only worth 2¢ ;)
Still more sense than I started with. Thanks!
Kind regards,
T G-R
> [0]: Also see the statement by the maintainer / author Yann Collet:
> https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335#issuecomment-245011724
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