Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing D into the tree

[Marius Mauch]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:54:12 +0200
Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:

> Alex Howells wrote:
> > On 09/03/07, Anant Narayanan <anant@g.o> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> I forgot to add that the dev-lang/dmd-bin ebuild might also require
> >> the special DMD license to be included in the tree. I'm attaching a
> >> copy of the license. I'm not much of a legal person, but it seems
> >> like this license is different from "as-is" and also prohibits
> >> redistribution which means we would need RESTRICT="nomirror".
> >
> > I think the key words in the license from our perspective are:
> >
> > "The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
> > and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
> > license, please contact Digital Mars."
> >
> > Would it be worth contacting Digital Mars?
> > -- Alex
>
> If they have a download link that works so users can download it
> automatically, I don't see any reason why we should give away bandwidth
> to a proprietary project.

Yeah, assuming they provide versioned tarballs these days (they didn't
when I took a look at it a few years ago).

Marius
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