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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:24:31PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> What are our exact criteria for a distfile to be mirror restricted? |
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> Apart from redistribution being allowed, I've used the following |
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> criteria from the BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group as guidelines: |
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> - MUST NOT require explicit approval (No items from @EULA) |
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> - MUST NOT restrict the cost of redistribution |
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> The second one was recently criticised in #gentoo-proxy-maint, with |
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> respect to games-action/mutantstorm-demo. Its license says: |
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> "You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting |
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> donations, for any such copies, however made; and from distributing |
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> the software and/or documentation with other products (commercial |
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> or therwise) without prior written permission." |
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> Do we need mirror restriction for that one? |
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Yes, that would need RESTRICT=mirror under those guidelines. |
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The most common case for 'restrict cost of redistribution', is somebody |
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that might ship DVD with distfiles (circa 2004 we even had DVDs of pure |
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distfiles in the Cafepress store, double-sided single-layer DVDs, |
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~8GiB/disk). The 2001-2005 releases had distfiles on official DVD |
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releases in some cases too. |
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There was also a second case I saw: |
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I don't recall the name of the company now, but there was a company that |
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offered a 'supported' Gentoo, that you paid for, and one of the pieces |
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was setting GENTOO_MIRRORS to their hosts, which was a maintained set of |
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distfiles to match their rsync tree. Those distfiles were a superset of |
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the main distfiles we distribute (longer retention, extra files). |
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I do however see a way forward: |
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1. Add an additional restriction to flag distfiles with license clauses |
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as above: RESTRICT='mirror-nocost' |
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2. DOCUMENT that any consumers of the distfiles for use cases such as |
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the above need to exclude distfiles by the above restriction. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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