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On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Friday 11 June 2004 08:33 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > I think this is pretty much the point. We have no problem with adding |
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> > xbox-specific ebuilds to portage, |
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> actually, there were a lot of people originally against that :) |
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Right, but it had been decided that we thought it was OK. After all, we |
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did bring Shallax on as a developer specifically for that purpose. |
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> > but the release of an "official" xbox |
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> > "port" could hold Gentoo liable in breaking the DMCA. |
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> which is why we have a few steps to this process ... first get the ebuilds in |
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> (which, by now, i think we've settled everyone's perceived 'problems') ... |
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No problems here... |
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> then we take it to the next level with documentation/announcement/listing on |
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> the site/livecds ... this part we still seem to be working out |
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This part is what I am worried about. Would we be breaking the law with |
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the release? |
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I see no problem with supplying everything needed to add the necessary |
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support to Gentoo for the Xbox, just with posting documentation that |
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would be instructions on how to defeat Microsoft's access controls. The |
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LiveCD itself would not even be in violation, provided it didn't have |
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the documentation on it. ;] |
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Perhaps if we had a section in the documentation along the lines of: |
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"Due to the DMCA, we are unable to describe exactly how to get the boot |
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loader onto the system. You can find this information on the xbox-linux |
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site at xbox-linux.org" |
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Anyway... You get the idea. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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