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I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think WineX is licensed under the GPL. Also, |
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the GPL only requires that they give you the source with the binary. As long |
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as the subscribers can get the source with the binary, nothing would stop |
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them from denying the public access to it. |
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On Friday 25 July 2003 03:47 am, Owen Gunden wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to |
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> > not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from |
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> > cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development |
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> > with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing |
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> > to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger |
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> > community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful |
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> > member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In |
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> > fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous |
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> > cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it |
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> > available to subscriber's only. |
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> Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place? Also, |
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> are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL? |
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> IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about. Just wondering. |
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> Owen |
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