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Daniel Black ha scritto: |
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> As software licenses seem to be so popular to talk about on gentoo-dev how |
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> about this one. |
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> Marijn mentioned on Irc that the bestcrypt license commercial trial license |
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> shouldn't be a supported package in Gentoo. |
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> |
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> Seeking further there is more.... |
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> Other licenses with a free time limited evaluation that are supported in |
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> Gentoo portage: |
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> ALMWorks-1.2 |
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> Arkkra |
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> OTN |
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> RAR |
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> |
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> BestCrypt is similar: |
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> "BestCrypt for Linux is distributed as software with 30 days evaluation |
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> period. After evaluation period expired, the user has to either pay for |
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> his/her copy of BestCrypt software for Linux or uninstall it. (see End User |
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> License Agreement.)" |
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> http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/linux.htm (Additional Notes) |
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> |
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> Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package removals)? |
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/me votes for remove them (and app-cdr/nero) |
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We removed winex for a similar reason and imho it's better to remove |
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this crap from the repository (it's difficult to support that packages |
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without violate the licence) |
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-- |
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Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ |
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FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff |
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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. |
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We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson |
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