Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:10:48 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Which feelings are clearly wrong, for anyone with any degree of
> > > > familiarity with ebuilds.
> > >
> > > perhaps, but in the larger scheme of things, irrelevant
> >
> > Unless there are third party repositories shipping their own
> > from-scratch ebuilds...
> 
> why would Gentoo care two licks about ebuilds in third party
> repositories ... this is just pointless pondering

Because if they're derived works from skel.ebuild as wolf31o2 is
claiming, then there are both copyright and licence requirements imposed
upon them. If this is the case, there are people out there in
violation, some of whom would likely take extremely strong issue with
the "derived works" argument...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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