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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:28:13
Message-Id: 200706202224.36601.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages by Josh Saddler
1 On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > Do potential licensing/copyright issues like these factor into your
3 > proposal in any way?
4
5 no, that's an exercise for the user and no one else ... there's no way i'd
6 have the tools prevent this. about the only thing i'd add is a reminder
7 message if "binpkg" is in IUSE and not in USE.
8
9 > wolf31o2 mentioned installing several identical
10 > boxes simultaneously using the same redistributed binaries, but in the
11 > case of these two packages, if they're built with -bindist on the live
12 > filesystem, redistributing it as-is isn't allowed.
13
14 wolf is free to redstribute his binary packages among his machines all he
15 likes regardless of USE=bindist
16 -mike

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