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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> Let me try and be clearer. The packages I'm concerned with have had |
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> their distfiles backed up. We're not yet in that situation but the day |
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> the publisher stops distributing these distfiles, I'll be ready to |
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> send the right email to the (hopefully) right person and hope for the |
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> best. I was suggesting we did that more often. And with that I'll stop |
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> here, because these childish arguments are not worth any more of my |
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> time. |
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If people as individuals want to do that then this is something |
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between them and their local government - it is their responsibility |
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to follow their own local laws or face the consequences. If it is a |
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game they bought then having an original copy of it is even completely |
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legal everywhere I'm aware of. |
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It only becomes an issue if Gentoo is going to host a copy of it, even |
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if privately. If this is a matter of having some Gentoo project that |
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lets people donate CDs of old games so that perhaps some day we can |
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get permission to distribute copies of them, then I'd question the |
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relevance to our mission, but it seems legal enough. On the other |
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hand, having a server someplace full of tarballs of unlicensed |
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reproductions of distfiles seems like a legal landmine. |
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I think it is a laudable concept - it just probably isn't wise to do |
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it under our organization as we really aren't set up for something |
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like this. We do operate in many jurisdictions where that activity is |
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likely to be found illegal, and the US is just one of them (the one |
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where we keep most of our money, BTW). |
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Now something that has been talked about is having a better way to |
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archive patches and such which are legal to store and redistribute. |
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We don't really have a good solution for that either, but it seems |
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like an easier problem to solve legally. |
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Rich |