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From: Adrian Almenar <strider@gentoo.org>
To: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>
Cc: Owen Gunden <ogunden@stwing.upenn.edu>,  gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:31:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F213F29.3080103@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307250435.47107.luke-jr@gentoo.org>

Winex is derived from wine and wine is NOT GPL is LGPL, AFAIK.

Luke-Jr wrote:

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>I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think WineX is licensed under the GPL. Also, 
>the GPL only requires that they give you the source with the binary. As long 
>as the subscribers can get the source with the binary, nothing would stop 
>them from denying the public access to it.
>
>On Friday 25 July 2003 03:47 am, Owen Gunden wrote:
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>>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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>>>How about because they asked us to?  Essentially, we have been asked to
>>>not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from
>>>cvs.  The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development
>>>with winex.  Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing
>>>to provide winex-cvs ebuilds.  However, Gentoo is part of a larger
>>>community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful
>>>member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors.  In
>>>fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous
>>>cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it
>>>available to subscriber's only.
>>>      
>>>
>>Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place?  Also,
>>are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL?
>>IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about.  Just wondering.
>>
>>Owen
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23  5:08 [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage? dean .
2003-07-23  5:42 ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-07-25  1:01   ` Andrew Cowie
2003-07-25  1:42     ` Brett I. Holcomb
2003-07-25  1:45       ` Nick Hadaway
2003-07-25  2:01       ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25  3:47         ` Owen Gunden
2003-07-25  4:14           ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-25  4:35           ` Luke-Jr
2003-07-25 14:31             ` Adrian Almenar [this message]
2003-07-26  0:20               ` Luke-Jr
2003-07-26 13:34                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25  6:13           ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-07-25  9:49             ` Patrick Lauer
2003-07-25 10:00               ` Patrick Kursawe
2003-07-25 11:54               ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25 12:26                 ` Patrick Lauer
2003-07-25 13:17                   ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25 14:06                 ` Dan Armak
2003-07-25 10:53             ` Svyatogor
2003-07-25 11:38           ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25 14:08         ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour

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