Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga and x264

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 19/07/10 17:41, Michal Svoboda wrote:
> jtd wrote:
> > gpl V2 covers copyrights, not patents. The writer of the code may  or
> > may not own the patent. The owner of the patent has to explicitly
> > grant you rights to the use of the patent, In this case the MPEG-LA
> > consortium.
>
> I don't see how chroot (mentioned by parent post) protects against that
> kind of 'non-freedom'.

chroot allows to create a non-free package without installing such 
software on my system.  Besides, I had a problem with it: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485392 and another one 
if I remember correctly.

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Eugen