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