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On Friday 01 September 2006 11:26, Greg KH wrote: |
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> No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release |
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> and live cds. We do not have to do anything with the package in |
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> portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtools that does the violating |
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> (and only if they then redistribute the built binary). |
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Well, I for one would rather not give a user the option to screw themselves to |
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this magnitude with a simple "emerge cdrtools". There's people that aren't |
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reading this list, and aren't going to know what's going on. It's unfair to |
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them. |
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> Same rule as the binary kernel modules situation. |
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The only way I see this similar is if the kernel actually had subdirectories |
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containing said binary modules. |
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We have an alternative stated [1]. I think we need to focus more on the |
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problems of using the alternative, then dealing with what some consider to be |
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a rather sketchy legal dispute. |
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[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debburn |
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