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 1EqMv0-0005Th-H0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:51:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3oDba004523; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:50:13 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP3ljKV004782 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:47:45 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so858502nzf for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:47:44 -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=qPdbW01L/1UF6G5jfa3YMq88xVqMGXX6LmiiNiJ73cqhdhh7q5gDXao3MG7bz0xJtqA+i74WW0B3CO3E9OLrZRtMmOKmlq/SBkUtq8kdc0tvGJXe2Z+Q0pLtCwEykbo8SYeMWP49xOnFCMIVi6c4Irpg57o/JY1bIqfR/VvX8gg= Received: by 10.36.250.48 with SMTP id x48mr1721854nzh; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.25.18 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:47:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:47:44 -0800 From: Bret Towe To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue In-Reply-To: <1135482177.6340.9.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> 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> <1135482177.6340.9.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3ljKV004782 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3oDdE004523 X-Archives-Salt: 392442b6-df35-4e4b-ab4d-84694b77863e X-Archives-Hash: c6c4daa9dc183bdd76f2515d0958ae24 On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:35 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > > On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe wr= ote: > > > | 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 sh= ort > > > | > 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 wit= h > > > 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 sourc= e > > 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? > > Read my last e-mail, it is a question of culpability do to the > facilitation of an illegal act, a crime in and of itself, nothing more, > nothing less. Sure we wouldn't be shipping the actual source, but what > we would be doing is facilitating your use of said source, which is > *illegal*. thanks again for making things alot clearer > -- > Daniel Ostrow > Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees > Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} > dostrow@gentoo.org > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDrhVB/qoUyhrWzV0RArDrAJ0Y4g7JrGlHD5xENHARbJ2188qtxgCghz4A > NO2Z9AaZ72+TYTh+pFQC4S8=3D > =3DL2QO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list