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 1EqMxB-0008PU-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:53:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3qQYN025631; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:52:26 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 jBP3nIGm022413 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:49:19 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMso-0007ia-IS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:49:18 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMsi-0006AF-7K for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:49:12 +0000 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:49:09 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue Message-ID: <20051225034909.5dac46f2@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1135481523.6340.5.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> References: <200512250402.28309.carlo@gentoo.org> <1135481523.6340.5.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/tJ0p98tKrt9jakxwv64ucx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: cd3334b0-fe94-4756-b60e-10d867859209 X-Archives-Hash: 48ba8f51c460e4ac5d43f52756b35fbd --Sig_/tJ0p98tKrt9jakxwv64ucx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:32:03 -0500 Daniel Ostrow wrote: | 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. The Foundation is liable under the DMCA for proving links to software that can be used to circumvent copyright protection, and it is liable under regular copyright law for shipping source or binaries of a package without permission. What law covers shipping a description of how to build copyright-violating (but not DMCA-covered) software? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_/tJ0p98tKrt9jakxwv64ucx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDrha396zL6DUtXhERAlqoAKCQp7IAI2Xl9/GgRT5+QLL06IL/AACgrGWi foXD2QcQDkvybwwzPhlXOgI= =1x39 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/tJ0p98tKrt9jakxwv64ucx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list