From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMfE-0008By-9G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:35:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3Y1OR012685; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:34:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP3W3D6032565 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:32:03 GMT Received: from p66-135.acedsl.com ([66.114.66.135] helo=Celes64.anyarch.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMc6-0005JO-Ng for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:32:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue From: Daniel Ostrow To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <200512250402.28309.carlo@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ddP8Q7vm62jNS276/JEn" Organization: The Gentoo Foundation, Inc. Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:32:03 -0500 Message-Id: <1135481523.6340.5.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 2aaf9c73-485d-4f58-9d6f-3aee24c6bb55 X-Archives-Hash: d2c0927809a6cc7d46d14a8495b2d6d3 --=-ddP8Q7vm62jNS276/JEn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous = license > > (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion=C2=B9 about = several > > months ago. >=20 > im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous licence > matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a licence if thats t= he > issue warn the user and leave it at that What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally culpable for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in our tree violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds then the original author would have the legal right to take action against us. It is not just a question of letting the user decide if they want to use an illegally licensed program, we would be facilitating such an act. That is something we cannot and will not do. --=20 Daniel Ostrow Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} dostrow@gentoo.org --=-ddP8Q7vm62jNS276/JEn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDrhKz/qoUyhrWzV0RAqP5AJ9VUOKz0gv/QU3dbOpjb766ZO+zFwCdFKn2 0485JEETpHLoyiayCt43elc= =UmgO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ddP8Q7vm62jNS276/JEn-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list