Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:59:11
Message-Id: 4F69EC1C.6010809@cs.stonybrook.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: License problem by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 03/21/12 10:48, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > On 21/03/12 10:34 AM, Richard Yao wrote:
3 >> On 03/21/12 10:18, Justin wrote:
4 >>> I will not extract part of the software, e.g. subroutines, for
5 >>> use in other contexts without permission of the author.
6 >
7 >> Portage could be considered to be one of these contexts.
8 >
9 >
10 > If the entire package is installed (ie, it's not broken up into
11 > separate libraries or sub-packages) this would be fine (ie having the
12 > package in portage), wouldn't it?
13 >
14 > I guess the primary restriction here would be that nothing else would
15 > be allowed to link against any embedded libraries; ie, the package
16 > couldn't be a dep.
17 >
18 >
19
20 It could also include applying patches.

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature