On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:35 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > > 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? > > Read my last e-mail, it is a question of culpability do to the > facilitation of an illegal act, a crime in and of itself, nothing more, > nothing less. Sure we wouldn't be shipping the actual source, but what > we would be doing is facilitating your use of said source, which is > *illegal*.
thanks again for making things alot clearer > -- > Daniel Ostrow > Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees > Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDrhVB/qoUyhrWzV0RArDrAJ0Y4g7JrGlHD5xENHARbJ2188qtxgCghz4A > NO2Z9AaZ72+TYTh+pFQC4S8= > =L2QO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list