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On 04/25/2011 09:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Dane Smith <c1pher@g.o> wrote: |
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>> @Trustees: Any thoughts? I didn't mean to step on any toes, I just |
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>> hadn't spotted that old bug until today. |
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> So, speaking only for myself, my thinking is that there is enough |
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> debate over the truecrypt license that I see no point in not just |
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> playing it safe and restricting mirroring. Restricting mirroring will |
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> make Gentoo itself not a party to any redistribution (at least not a |
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> direct party). If we further restrict fetching you could argue that |
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> we're getting ourselves out of the facilitation business as well (not |
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> a legal theory I'm enamored with). |
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> I'd like to propose that devs should not commit ebuilds that do not |
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> have mirroring restrictions unless the license is in |
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> @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE. Perhaps this should be a repoman check. |
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> Whether something ends up in that group is more complicated, but |
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> repoman doesn't need to worry about that. |
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> |
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> Neither Debian nor Ubuntu redistribute TrueCrypt. That at the very |
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> least should give us concern with doing so. Their license is also not |
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> considered free by any of the usual bodies. |
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> Sure, it is a little hassle for users, but not that much in the big |
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> scheme of things - especially since other distros don't package it at |
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> all. Better to let any lawyers we retain focus on getting the |
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> foundation in better order and not have them fighting over licenses. |
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> Rich |
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These are all good enough reasons for me. Re-Restricted mirror and fetch |
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in CVS. Thanks =) |
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- -- |
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Dane Smith (c1pher) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer -- QA / Crypto / Sunrise / x86 |
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RSA Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0C2E1531&op=index |
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