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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:50:37
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mju94CKSVWAFaG1D0Zm5wj18S=m8Z2-d3YNK4k03Kzng@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Gordon Pettey wrote:
3 >
4 >> Can these package.mask notes stop saying "no alternative found" when
5 >> it's obvious five seconds of Google searching was not even performed
6 >> to find an alternative?
7 >> https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/shadowlords-dreamcatcher-and-demon-campaigns
8 >> has live links, and the exe even matches the sha256sum.
9 >
10 > Do they have permission to redistribute the file, though? The ebuild
11 > is mirror restricted and LICENSE says "all-rights-reserved".
12 >
13
14 Do we routinely confirm that any site we list in SRC_URI has
15 permission to redistribute files? That seems like a slippery slope.
16 In any case, as far as I can tell this is probably one of the largest
17 sites for hosting this sort of content and I can't imagine that it
18 would have escaped the author's notice if they didn't want the files
19 distributed there.
20
21 --
22 Rich

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