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On 10/08/17 11:47, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:25:34 +1000 |
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> "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 09/08/17 10:43, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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>>> Also your redistributing another's package |
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>>> in binary format which may not be legally allowed. |
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>> Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting redistributing license-encumbered |
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>> packages. Since binary packages are managed by the system |
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>> administrator, not Gentoo (as a distro), it remains with the |
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>> administrator to adhere to any relevant license restrictions. Plus |
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>> the package manager can't tell if you're distributing binaries or not. |
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> Sure, I was just pointing out that there maybe legal needs to prevent |
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> such. Unless someone wants to circumvent. Their call but not default. |
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> The package manager knows about fetch restricted ebuilds. It should |
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> not to re-package that stuff. IMHO |
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Packaging a binary is not redistributing. Building binpkgs does not mean |
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you're going to redistribute them, and even if you were, the package |
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manager has no way of determining that aside from an |
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--im-going-to-redist-this-package option. |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) |
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