Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

["Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@gentoo.org>]

Bret Towe wrote:

>On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com> wrote:
>>| On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>| > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a
>>| > ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short
>>| > discussion¹ about several months ago.
>>|
>>| im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous
>>| licence matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a
>>| licence if thats the issue warn the user and leave it at that
>>
>>Would you like us to add the Windows XP source code to the tree with
>>LICENSE="gpl-2" as well?
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>whats the point i cant get the same crap from /dev/random
>
>sarcasm aside considering its just an ebuild that points to the source
>which could be not hosted on gentoo mirrors and the LICENCE bit
>is to notify the user ahead of time what the licence is and,
>assuming the functionality was there, allow said user to ignore
>all applications that use that licence type but since that isnt there
>it could be anything and it doesnt really matter now does it?
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It does matter because Gentoo is a foundation which need to respect that
"absurdity" of licenses and copyright thing.

And i think that you, as a user, need to agree with that policy
(and common sense actually) while using Gentoo.

This is a "free software" community , not a "fuck the law" community.

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