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>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial |
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> package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was that |
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> if upstream disappears there's a good chance, depending on why that |
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> happens, we can qualify the software as abandonware and the no |
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> mirror restriction may become moot. |
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IANAL, but there is no such concept as "abandonware" in copyright law. |
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Copyright can expire, at which point the work enters into the public |
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domain. However, the time for that is generally too long to play any |
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practical role for software (typically 70 years post mortem auctoris). |
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Therefore we cannot distribute a package unless it is explicitly |
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allowed by its license. |
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> At that point we could push the distfiles to our mirrors. |
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No. |
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Ulrich |
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