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earily today i updated the ebuilds for mac and xmms-mac, |
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for those that dont know their applications for monkey's audio (.ape files), |
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and got them submited to bug 94477[1] which was closed |
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due to the way the licence was done |
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my issue is i think the ebuilds should be commited to portage |
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as i dont see how the licence or issues that app has anything todo |
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with a gentoo ebuild as all the ebuild does is fetch and install |
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and its only told todo so upon the user requesting it to be so |
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hence its the users choice to deal with the licence rather than |
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the developers desiding for that user |
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i can understand putting proper warning in the ebuild if the dev |
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thinks that its worth the user really noting the issues surrounding |
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it, not forcing their ideals onto the user |
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if i wanted that i would run debian |
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for those that havent figured it out yet from reading the above |
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i dont care the politics of the issue with the licence all i want |
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is the functionality of the ebuild concerned |
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if it is the case that the devs believe the user is totally incapable |
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of making choices for themselfs then i suggest putting up |
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somewhere noting it as such |
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1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94477 |
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