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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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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