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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Legalese of a new license (Monkey's Audio)
  @ 2004-07-21 17:49 99% ` Lisa Seelye
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From: Lisa Seelye @ 2004-07-21 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Jeremy Huddleston; +Cc: gentoo-dev, Gentoo Core

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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:19, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> In a recent bug for Monkey's Audio Codec[1], the license file[2] seems
> to me like it would cause some problems.  Section 2 states "The use of
> any of the Monkey's Audio source code or any component thereof from
> another program requires express written permission from the author of
> Monkey's Audio."
> 
> To me, this sounds like the user would need written permission to emerge
> the package... Am I reading that correctly?
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52882
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=35862&action=view

(sorry for the dupe, Jeremy)

Perhaps it's time for a gentoo-legal mail list for such inqueries?
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Regards,
-Lisa
<Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur>

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