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On Friday 25 July 2003 05:47, Owen Gunden wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to |
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> > not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from |
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> > cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development |
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> > with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing |
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> > to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger |
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> > community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful |
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> > member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In |
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> > fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous |
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> > cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it |
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> > available to subscriber's only. |
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> Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place? Also, |
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> are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL? |
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> IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about. Just wondering. |
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To make it clear. |
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winex is not GPL, I believe it has a MIT-X license. Further we have been asked |
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not to provide the cvs ebuild. This makes it easy for people to use the cvs |
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version of winex, so getting winex without paying. The people making winex |
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still need to eat though, so if we continue to offer winex-cvs ebuilds a |
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consequence could be that they close up their cvs to protect their living, |
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and with that hurting a lot of innocent bystanders. They see their cvs access |
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as a way people can help contribute to winex, and get winex in return. They |
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don't mind people getting winex for free if those people help developing. The |
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way the gentoo ebuild works, makes it very easy for people to use the cvs |
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version without even thinking. Most of those people probably do not help |
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developing winex, and as such use a resource without paying for it. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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