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>>>>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Gordon Pettey wrote: |
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>>> Can these package.mask notes stop saying "no alternative found" |
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>>> when it's obvious five seconds of Google searching was not even |
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>>> performed to find an alternative? |
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>>> https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/shadowlords-dreamcatcher-and-demon-campaigns |
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>>> has live links, and the exe even matches the sha256sum. |
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>> Do they have permission to redistribute the file, though? The |
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>> ebuild is mirror restricted and LICENSE says "all-rights-reserved". |
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> Do we routinely confirm that any site we list in SRC_URI has |
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> permission to redistribute files? That seems like a slippery slope. |
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We don't, and for a package that comes with a license (as the vast |
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majority of packages does) it normally isn't necessary. |
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The package in question doesn't come with any license though, which |
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means that only the copyright holder has the right to distribute it. |
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So I believe that some extra care is justified, especially when the |
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upstream location of the distfile has changed. |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/licenses/all-rights-reserved |
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> In any case, as far as I can tell this is probably one of the |
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> largest sites for hosting this sort of content and I can't imagine |
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> that it would have escaped the author's notice if they didn't want |
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> the files distributed there. |
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We don't know this for sure unless we ask the author. So whoever is |
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interested in keeping the package in the tree should sort these issues |
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out. |
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Ulrich |
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