On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Would you like us to add the Windows XP source code to the tree with > LICENSE="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 > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
