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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to |
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> not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from |
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> cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development |
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> with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing |
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> to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger |
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> community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful |
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> member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In |
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> fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous |
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> cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it |
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> available to subscriber's only. |
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Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place? Also, |
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are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL? |
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IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about. Just wondering. |
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Owen |
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