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From: Justin <jlec@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:17:35
Message-Id: 4F69F045.7010603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 21.03.2012 15:48, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > On 21/03/12 10:34 AM, Richard Yao wrote:
3 >> On 03/21/12 10:18, Justin wrote:
4 >>> I will not extract part of the software, e.g. subroutines, for
5 >>> use in other contexts without permission of the author.
6 >
7 >> Portage could be considered to be one of these contexts.
8 >
9 >
10 > If the entire package is installed (ie, it's not broken up into
11 > separate libraries or sub-packages) this would be fine (ie having the
12 > package in portage), wouldn't it?
13 >
14 > I guess the primary restriction here would be that nothing else would
15 > be allowed to link against any embedded libraries; ie, the package
16 > couldn't be a dep.
17 >
18
19 It simply creates one binary which I am interested in. I don't see any
20 problem if I use fetch restriction. The only remaining question would be
21 the actual LICENSE?
22
23 justin

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>