And this is all irrelevant since the copyright applies to the software, not the location you obtain it from. Nobody commits copyright infringement by buying a used book from their neighbour instead of buying it at Half Price Books. Distribution licenses are another thing, but if the original SRC_URI from the ebuild wasn't RESTICT="fetch", what makes anybody think that would suddenly change with a new SRC_URI?
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Ciaran McCreesh < ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 03:56:38 +1200 > Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Sir, please see my above comment about building ballistic > > > >> missiles. It may be important for the Gentoo Foundation to add a > > > >> disclaimer similar to the one I mentioned. I would hate for the > > > >> Foundation or any of its administrators or contributors to be > > > >> found guilty of aiding and abetting terrorists. > > > > > > > > Yeah. Stop trolling, please. > > > > > > > > > > I am being completely serious. You can find such a clause in the > > > iTunes license. > > > > > > If it seems ridiculous please reconsider the subject in question. > > > > I'm not sure how enforceable that clause is as a License. > > Until recently, there was a clause in the Nauty licence prohibiting use > in "military applications". This was sufficient for the highly paid > lawyers who looked at it to recommend not redistributing Nauty as part > of the GAP computer algebra system, because computer algebra could > conceivably be used for blowing stuff up. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > >
