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From: Jon Lech Johansen <jon@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:24:36
Message-Id: 20030428111802.C5741@nanocrew.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 by Frantz Dhin
1 On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:02:25AM +0200, Frantz Dhin (fd@×××××××.dk) wrote:
2 > Why are you carrying on this discussion here for-bloody-ever? There are
3 > no lawyers here or noone even halfways qualified to have this
4 > discussion, and you are certainly not one either.
5
6 As someone who has been deeply involved in copyright issues for the last
7 3 years, I'd say I'm halfway qualified to discuss simple copyright
8 issues. I'm not a lawyer, but I have two.
9
10 > I do not see why you are so hell bent on complaining on behalf of
11 > Microsoft and Apple.
12
13 I don't see any moral difference between violating Microsoft's copyright
14 and violating Gentoo's copyright. As a Gentoo user I'm concerned about
15 the Gentoo project engaging in copyright infringement.
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18 Jon Lech Johansen
19 jon@××××××××××.org
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22 Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus
23 omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,
24 hoc virtutis opus.
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