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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:18:04
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=eShJF0-0i71i7SXr9-ve_z4HNAL3od_O=MJzguD9QuA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem by Richard Yao
1 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > On 03/21/12 10:18, Justin wrote:
3 >> I will not extract part of the software, e.g. subroutines, for use in
4 >> other contexts without permission of the author.
5 >
6 > Portage could be considered to be one of these contexts.
7
8 Unless portage is just installing a small part of the application then
9 I don't really see an issue here. If we keep it as a whole I don't
10 see the issue.
11
12 The first clause really suggests that we need RESTRICT=mirror. I
13 don't see any clear need for RESTRICT=fetch.
14
15 Obviously the license needs to go into the tree/etc.
16
17 Rich