On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally culpable
for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in our tree
violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds then the
original author would have the legal right to take action against us. It
is not just a question of letting the user decide if they want to use an
illegally licensed program, we would be facilitating such an act. That
is something we cannot and will not do.
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Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
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