Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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25.12.2005, 4:17:05, Bret Towe wrote:

> On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org> 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 discussion1 about several
>> months ago.

> 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 the
> issue warn the user and leave it at that

Yuck. I'm sorry, but arguments like "copyright does not matter, just go ship
it" won't fare too well, leaving further debate pretty much pointless.
Copyright *does* matter, if you want to see an example how a ridiculous
license kills the job, go see qmail ebuilds.


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