On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:54:12 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Howells wrote: > > On 09/03/07, Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > >> I forgot to add that the dev-lang/dmd-bin ebuild might also require > >> the special DMD license to be included in the tree. I'm attaching a > >> copy of the license. I'm not much of a legal person, but it seems > >> like this license is different from "as-is" and also prohibits > >> redistribution which means we would need RESTRICT="nomirror". > > > > I think the key words in the license from our perspective are: > > > > "The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license, > > and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution > > license, please contact Digital Mars." > > > > Would it be worth contacting Digital Mars? > > -- Alex > > If they have a download link that works so users can download it > automatically, I don't see any reason why we should give away bandwidth > to a proprietary project. Yeah, assuming they provide versioned tarballs these days (they didn't when I took a look at it a few years ago). Marius -- [email protected] mailing list
