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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: License for Google Chrome
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:51:34
Message-Id: 1314449454.4209.12.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License for Google Chrome by Rich Freeman
1 Il giorno sab, 27/08/2011 alle 08.23 -0400, Rich Freeman ha scritto:
2 > Gentoo does not
3 > need to accept a license to allow users to fetch a file directly, so
4 > the EULA/license in itself doesn't necessarily force us to use
5 > RESTRICT=fetch.
6
7 Let me try to use this point to remind that "unclear patent status" is
8 generally not a good reason to RESTRICT=fetch.. maybe RESTRICT=mirror,
9 but definitely not fetch.
10
11 Otherwise probably half the tree wouldn't be fetchable in US...
12
13 --
14 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
15 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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