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Bret Towe wrote: |
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>On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote: |
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>>This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license |
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>>(when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several |
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>im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous licence |
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>matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a licence if thats the |
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>issue warn the user and leave it at that |
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>>Carsten |
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>>[1] http://tinyurl.com/9oxgc |
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I'm not a dev or anything, not a lawyer either, bit I'll try to explain |
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it this way. You go buy a car at the dealership. Legal right? The car |
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was stolen and sold to the dealership by the thief. It doesn't matter |
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that the dealership or you didn't know the car was stolen. The crook is |
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guilty of stealing the car, the dealer is guilty of receiving/selling |
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stolen mechandise, you are guilty of buying/possesing it. All this when |
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you nor the dealer knew it was stolen to begin with. It is legally up |
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to you to make sure the vehicle is not stolen. If you don't, you pay |
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the price. |
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So to apply to this situation. The program, according to the person |
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that put it on sourceforge from what I read, knows the license is not |
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legal but did it any. He even pretty much says so. So now unlike |
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above, you know the license is illegal. Well, the Gentoo people know |
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this too. They don't want to be the dealer above who could at the very |
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least end up in court with a lawyer billing them hundreds of dollars a |
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hour just to pass on something they know is illegal to begin with. You |
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could be sitting in the next court room defending yourself as well. |
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Just like the RIAA, you leave tracks and they know you have it. You get |
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it for possesion like above. |
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Another way of looking at it is this. Let's say someone at Gentoo, like |
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the people that write portage for example, find their code or program |
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being distributed without their permission. If Gentoo does as you want, |
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they couldn't really say much could they? Since by doing that Gentoo |
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would be as bad as the guy that stole their code in portage. It's sort |
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of like stealing something from a thief. Who is he going to report it |
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too? He stole too. Of course, I say put them both in jail. |
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Write to whoever is in charge of the program and tell them to get the |
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license worked out so it is legal. I'm sure then the Gentoo people will |
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jump on board and put it in portage for you. |
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Basically, what you are asking them to do is wrong. I'm not speaking |
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for them but don't hold your breath hoping they will help you break the |
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law OK. |
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My $.02 worth which is not legal advise either by the way. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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Sticks foot in mouth so I will shut up. LOL |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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