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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new global USE flag "srcdist"
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 06:54:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140102065401.421e80b1@caribou.gateway.pace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140102065006.59a2bad9@caribou.gateway.pace.com

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 06:50:06 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I've always believed that when it comes down to it all Gentoo basically does
> is provide a link to some source code and a script to build and install it.
> Unless we violate someone's license by redistributing that source then we
> really don't have to worry about it, and as you said we already have
> mechanisms to deal with that.  What the user does with that source is their
> business, and they are solely responsible for following the terms of the
> license(s).  IIRC this is the stance we took back in 2006 with the cdrtools
> debacle [1].

[1]  http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/



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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-02 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 22:28 [gentoo-dev] RFC: new global USE flag "srcdist" Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02  1:21 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2014-01-02  1:51 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-02  2:10   ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02  2:19     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-02  2:38       ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02  2:50         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-02  2:57           ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02 12:54           ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 15:25             ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-02 16:24               ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02 11:35     ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02  2:13   ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2014-01-02  2:40     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-02  2:43       ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2014-01-02  8:56 ` Michał Górny
2014-01-02 12:45   ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 12:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2014-01-02 12:54   ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2014-01-02 13:18   ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 14:07     ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-02 14:01   ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-02 16:10   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-01-02 16:28     ` Luis Ressel
2014-01-02 16:37       ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-02 17:02         ` Luis Ressel
2014-01-03 14:09           ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-02 16:53       ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 17:02         ` Luis Ressel
2014-01-02 18:17           ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 18:27             ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02 18:34             ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-02 21:11             ` Ryan Hill
2014-01-02 21:20               ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-02 22:07                 ` Ryan Hill
2014-01-02 22:53                   ` Ryan Hill
2014-01-02 23:53                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-05  3:00                       ` Ryan Hill
2014-01-02 17:13       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-01-02 18:25         ` Luis Ressel
2014-01-02 21:24     ` Ryan Hill

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