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On Thursday, January 20, 2011 13:51:23 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> Il giorno gio, 20/01/2011 alle 19.41 +0100, Matti Bickel ha scritto: |
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> > So, I'm not opposed to your idea. If ya want to archive your stuff |
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> > forever, by all means do it. I just see no point in forcing this on |
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> > all |
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> > devs. So, care to explain or give me pointer on why this is necessary? |
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> License compliance when distributing binaries |
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how is this relevant ? if there are issues with distributing binaries, then |
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were they get distributed isnt important. |
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> distributions built upon Gentoo that might use old and set-in-stone Portage |
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> trees |
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last i heard, the FSF's interpretation of the GPL was that this is the problem |
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of said derivatives. i'm not saying we shouldnt help out where possible, just |
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that we shouldnt be bending over backwards for them. they want to stay |
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behind, then that is their problem. |
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-mike |
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