Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Niches and new developers (especially xbox)

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:42:46 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
wrote:
| On Friday 11 June 2004 10:25 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
| > Having documentation on how to bypass the security measures of the
| > Xbox violates the DMCA.  The xbox-linux guys are simply ignoring
| > this and doing "business as usual" by providing this information.  I
| > have no problems with it myself, just that technically it *is*
| > illegal.  You have to just love laws that are complete garbage.
| 
| so what we're looking at here (and what was planned on in the first
| place) was adding the packages to portage but RESTRICT=nomirror

Isn't linking to violating files also in violation of your dumb USian
laws? (See, for example: "Waaah! Google, I order you to remove this
link.) In other words, we'd have to do one of those horrid fetch
restriction things and not include the exact URI in the ebuild?

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