Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-10-30 Thread David Bannon
OK folks, reminding Paul, Daniel, Tobias and Philipp of the discussion that took place over the last couple of months about getting tomboy-ng into the Debian repos.  The issue at that stage was that, of necessity, the source package contains some third party code called KControls, the license of

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Philip Hands
Rogério Brito writes: > Dear people, > > As many of you may know, the RIAA issued a resquest for GitHub to take down > the youtube-dl repository. IANAL so I may be confused, but AIUI that takedown is based on the notion that there is no legitimate use for youtube-dl, which is nonsense, as this c

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2020, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 30 1:46:21 PM IST, Philip Hands wrote: >We could presumably consult a lawyer, but the RIAA would need to be even >more moronic than I think they are to have a go at us, given that nobody >in the wider world has ever heard of us, and we're going to have no >trouble raising fund

Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:24 AM David Bannon wrote: > OK folks, reminding Paul, Daniel, Tobias and Philipp of the discussion > that took place over the last couple of months about getting tomboy-ng > into the Debian repos. The issue at that stage was that, of necessity, > the source package conta

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le jeudi 29 octobre 2020 à 16:59:53-0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > Dear people, > > As many of you may know, the RIAA issued a resquest for GitHub to take down > the youtube-dl repository. > > The tree had some fixes that were *not* in the latest release that I > uploaded a few days ago (I am th

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Roberto
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:15:34PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > The RIAA seems to be targeting the most vulnerable and leat likely to > defend themselves, otherweise they would be targeting those who upload > content violating copyright laws instead on free software maintainers. > > (Also, there

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 04:59:53PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > As many of you may know, the RIAA issued a resquest for GitHub to take down > the youtube-dl repository. > > The tree had some fixes that were *not* in the latest release that I > uploaded a few days ago (I am the m

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Steve Cotton
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:16:21AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > IANAL so I may be confused, but AIUI that takedown is based on the > notion that there is no legitimate use for youtube-dl, which is > nonsense, as this comment clealy demonstrates: > > "youtube-dl is pretty much the only thing that