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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:50:08
Message-Id: 4F69EA4B.4080901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem by Richard Yao
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4 On 21/03/12 10:34 AM, Richard Yao wrote:
5 > On 03/21/12 10:18, Justin wrote:
6 >> I will not extract part of the software, e.g. subroutines, for
7 >> use in other contexts without permission of the author.
8 >
9 > Portage could be considered to be one of these contexts.
10 >
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12 If the entire package is installed (ie, it's not broken up into
13 separate libraries or sub-packages) this would be fine (ie having the
14 package in portage), wouldn't it?
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16 I guess the primary restriction here would be that nothing else would
17 be allowed to link against any embedded libraries; ie, the package
18 couldn't be a dep.
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem Justin <jlec@g.o>