On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Gordon Pettey wrote:
>
>> Can these package.mask notes stop saying "no alternative found" when
>> it's obvious five seconds of Google searching was not even performed
>> to find an alternative?
>> https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/shadowlords-dreamcatcher-and-demon-campaigns
>> has live links, and the exe even matches the sha256sum.
>
> Do they have permission to redistribute the file, though? The ebuild
> is mirror restricted and LICENSE says "all-rights-reserved".
>
Do we routinely confirm that any site we list in SRC_URI has
permission to redistribute files?  That seems like a slippery slope.
In any case, as far as I can tell this is probably one of the largest
sites for hosting this sort of content and I can't imagine that it
would have escaped the author's notice if they didn't want the files
distributed there.

-- 
Rich

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