Debian's patent policy FAQ

The Debian project, in cooperation with the Software Freedom Law Center, has posted a patent policy FAQ covering the basics of software patent law from a (necessarily) US-centric point of view. "This document presents information about patents and patent liability useful for developers working on community distributions of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). By community distributions, we mean collections of free software packages maintained and distributed by organizations composed of volunteers, where neither the organization nor the volunteers seek to make a profit from the activity."

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