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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:19:56 +0000, Paul Waring <pwaring@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'm open to suggestions about what action (if any) the web-apps herd should |
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> > take. |
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> I suppose you could put a disclaimer in, along the lines of the Sun |
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> Java license (i.e. some text and then "are you sure you agree to this: |
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> Y/N"). It sounds awfully like another SCO to me, and I don't see how |
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> they can really go after the users (especially those of us in the UK). |
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> Better to be safe than sorry though for the present and then see how |
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> it fans out over the next couple of weeks. |
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> I don't think it should be removed from portage altogether though, |
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> just because a company claims that some of the code is theirs |
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> (otherwise we'd have to remove the Linux kernel as well). |
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> Paul |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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Heh, this ass-clown has his "offices" down the street from me. In |
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fact, I think I used to deliver pizzas to that address in college. |
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Getting to the point, I'd think something like the Sun Java SDK (where |
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you have to explicitly download it, and put it into |
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/usr/portage/distfiles), in addition to adding a warning in the ebuild |
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is more than enough. Let's face it, if people want the software, they |
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will install it, portage or otherwise. We arn't responsible for their |
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actions. |
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Mike Doty |
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