On 10/08/17 11:47, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:25:34 +1000 > "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wra...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 09/08/17 10:43, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>> Also your redistributing another's package >>> in binary format which may not be legally allowed. >> >> Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting redistributing license-encumbered >> packages. Since binary packages are managed by the system >> administrator, not Gentoo (as a distro), it remains with the >> administrator to adhere to any relevant license restrictions. Plus >> the package manager can't tell if you're distributing binaries or not. > > Sure, I was just pointing out that there maybe legal needs to prevent > such. Unless someone wants to circumvent. Their call but not default. > > The package manager knows about fetch restricted ebuilds. It should > not to re-package that stuff. IMHO
Packaging a binary is not redistributing. Building binpkgs does not mean you're going to redistribute them, and even if you were, the package manager has no way of determining that aside from an --im-going-to-redist-this-package option. -- Sam Jorna (wraeth) GnuPG ID: D6180C26
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