Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

[Bret Towe]

On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@g.o> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:35 -0800, Bret Towe wrote:
> > On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe <magnade@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote:
> > > | > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a
> > > | > ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short
> > > | > discussion¹ about several months ago.
> > > |
> > > | im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous
> > > | licence matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a
> > > | licence if thats the issue warn the user and leave it at that
> > >
> > > Would you like us to add the Windows XP source code to the tree with
> > > LICENSE="gpl-2" as well?
> >
> > whats the point i cant get the same crap from /dev/random
> >
> > sarcasm aside considering its just an ebuild that points to the source
> > which could be not hosted on gentoo mirrors and the LICENCE bit
> > is to notify the user ahead of time what the licence is and,
> > assuming the functionality was there, allow said user to ignore
> > all applications that use that licence type but since that isnt there
> > it could be anything and it doesnt really matter now does it?
>
> Read my last e-mail, it is a question of culpability do to the
> facilitation of an illegal act, a crime in and of itself, nothing more,
> nothing less. Sure we wouldn't be shipping the actual source, but what
> we would be doing is facilitating your use of said source, which is
> *illegal*.

thanks again for making things alot clearer


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> Daniel Ostrow
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