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On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: |
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> On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote: |
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> > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license |
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> > (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several |
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> > months ago. |
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> im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous licence |
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> matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a licence if thats the |
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> issue warn the user and leave it at that |
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What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally culpable |
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for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in our tree |
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violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds then the |
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original author would have the legal right to take action against us. It |
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is not just a question of letting the user decide if they want to use an |
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illegally licensed program, we would be facilitating such an act. That |
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is something we cannot and will not do. |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |
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