Lib Dems and software patents?

I was discussing this on IRC and how the Lib Dems' policy turned out to be
a, ah, complete lie. A volunteer worker for the Lib Dems insisted that it
was not a lie and that the vote had been a "clerical error." Which doesn't
square with a volunteer I'd closely questioned on the matter soon after the
vote, who was very embarrassed about it - it appears they bothered getting
out a shore story to the volunteers.

So the questions are:

1. what *is* the Lib Dem position? (I know their lawyer is pro-swpat.)
2. what are they telling the volunteers?
3. do 1 and 2 have any relation?


- d.