From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMkS-0000ty-Ht for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:40:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3d3ka006462; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:39:03 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP3ZM3P032366 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:35:22 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so857619nzf for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:35:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hsQVsZ9ebBm8bR14UaVP1X9zsqkd4ncPwnDi4Fss2g2mnB+aUxlIAMb7P2LgW79zmwrd5o7cwofZZEAl2al7LyfKTMiGo3N43B0jvJ1FzVjdmpI4nDXBXA0AiXcOhsRYgdQXRsgpffb+6NxtLgLNJgax1/78CO5Kz5q4UvfiSTg= Received: by 10.36.18.17 with SMTP id 17mr1706507nzr; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.25.18 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:35:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:35:21 -0800 From: Bret Towe To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue In-Reply-To: <20051225032548.0d844da3@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200512250402.28309.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051225032548.0d844da3@snowdrop.home> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3ZM3P032366 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3d3mE006462 X-Archives-Salt: c81e804f-d026-469c-82bf-64f39959a473 X-Archives-Hash: fe7d2774d6b870a759ea5f2266867f9f On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe wrote: > | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke 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 > | > discussion=B9 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=3D"gpl-2" as well? 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? > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > > --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list