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Hi, |
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On 6/28/06, Mivz <mivz@×××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have just read the following story, which scared me a bit: |
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> http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150 |
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> Does this obligation, to provide your own source, also count for a none |
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> Gentoo developer making a overlay tree for one of his projects which is |
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> licensed under de GPL-2? Because that is a derived distro form Gentoo |
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> right? |
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> Would that mean that, if u write software using the portage system, that |
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> every package that is used by one of your own should be available from a |
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> server of your own? |
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> If, the developer should also provide it's own file server with all |
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> those packages, this would cause that every developer that wanted to |
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> make a overlay should be a Gentoo file mirror? |
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> |
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> Do my senses run wilde? Your just my imagination? |
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> Do I understand this right? |
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> |
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> Mivz |
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Questions on how the law affects Gentoo are best put to the Gentoo |
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Trustees, who have access to our lawyers. They're the only people who |
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should be commenting on legal stuff like this. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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