From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16142 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 14:33:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14947 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 14:33:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3F213F29.3080103@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:31:05 -0400 From: Adrian Almenar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke-Jr CC: Owen Gunden , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1059098497.23507.6.camel@vertigo> <20030725034725.GA21977@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <200307250435.47107.luke-jr@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307250435.47107.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage? X-Archives-Salt: a33eac5a-fed8-429f-873d-928aa9858bb6 X-Archives-Hash: e26003c3979aaacdee20e35e2eb99e24 Winex is derived from wine and wine is NOT GPL is LGPL, AFAIK. Luke-Jr wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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: > > >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> >> >>>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 >> >>-- >>gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > >- -- >Luke-Jr >Developer, Gentoo Linux >http://www.gentoo.org/ >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/ILOiZl/BHdU+lYMRAvwnAJ0ft8tV4scOUrRsLikg/K1bN49yGgCgj5fn >C2eS/837fRlpQ4EmPl7v0Pg= >=e47W >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >-- >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list