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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I've never seen this before in 10 years using Gentoo. |
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> Has anyone verified that Splice's licence is compatible with Gentoo ? |
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What do you mean by "compatible with Gentoo?" |
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Gentoo is not a party to the distribution or use of splice, so why |
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would Gentoo need to be concerned with its licensing? We are merely |
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providing a script that helps a user who legally has the right to |
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install/use it to do so. The license listed in the ebuild is listed |
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as a convenience to the user. |
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Gentoo is fairly unique among Linux distros in that we separate the |
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distribution of the content of a package from its installation |
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script/metadata/etc. If a package has a license which does not permit |
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redistribution we simply don't redistribute the portions of it for |
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which we do not hold a license. That is also why you won't find any |
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"Iceweasels" or such in Gentoo - we don't distribute modified upstream |
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files, therefore we are not subject to any restrictions on the |
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distributions of such. |
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There is nothing illegal with providing an installation script for |
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somebody else's binary, as long as you don't distribute the binary. |
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Look at the long tradition of Windows install/patch tools for an |
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example of this. |
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Rich |