From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20741 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 03:47:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27272 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 03:47:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:47:25 -0400 From: Owen Gunden To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030725034725.GA21977@force.stwing.upenn.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030722224244.5c16c414.seemant@gentoo.org> <1059094909.2408.35.camel@localhost> <1059098497.23507.6.camel@vertigo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059098497.23507.6.camel@vertigo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage? X-Archives-Salt: d6bcabd2-b71b-4771-a4fc-a263879052bb X-Archives-Hash: e748c26d57e1d505580730d7496f86a6 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to > not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from > cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development > with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing > to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger > community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful > member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In > fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous > cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it > available to subscriber's only. Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place? Also, are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL? IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about. Just wondering. Owen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list