From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:50:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21446.37158.790000.421879@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CSuA+LJqgs1vGmq9dXbOORjttXPnS9j6tdhY1cExLBP09p0A@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial
> package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was that
> if upstream disappears there's a good chance, depending on why that
> happens, we can qualify the software as abandonware and the no
> mirror restriction may become moot.
IANAL, but there is no such concept as "abandonware" in copyright law.
Copyright can expire, at which point the work enters into the public
domain. However, the time for that is generally too long to play any
practical role for software (typically 70 years post mortem auctoris).
Therefore we cannot distribute a package unless it is explicitly
allowed by its license.
> At that point we could push the distfiles to our mirrors.
No.
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-07-16 14:08 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo Denis Dupeyron
2014-07-16 14:50 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2014-07-16 16:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2014-07-16 16:20 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2014-07-16 18:22 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-07-16 19:19 ` Denis Dupeyron
2014-07-16 19:24 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-07-16 19:28 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-07-16 19:44 ` Denis Dupeyron
2014-07-16 19:54 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-16 20:24 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-07-17 4:13 ` Alec Warner
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