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On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, 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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> > > months ago. |
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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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> What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally culpable |
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> for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in our tree |
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> violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds then the |
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> original author would have the legal right to take action against us. It |
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> is not just a question of letting the user decide if they want to use an |
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> illegally licensed program, we would be facilitating such an act. That |
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> is something we cannot and will not do. |
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THANK YOU! |
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now if someone had said that eariler this wouldnt have gone that far |
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is this documented somewhere so devs later on when dealing |
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with such an item again can just post a url to it on the bug |
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and help prevent this from happening again? |
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> Daniel Ostrow |
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> Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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> Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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