>>>>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Gordon Pettey wrote: >> >>> Can these package.mask notes stop saying "no alternative found" >>> when it's obvious five seconds of Google searching was not even >>> performed to find an alternative? >>> https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/shadowlords-dreamcatcher-and-demon-campaigns >>> has live links, and the exe even matches the sha256sum. >> >> Do they have permission to redistribute the file, though? The >> ebuild is mirror restricted and LICENSE says "all-rights-reserved".
> Do we routinely confirm that any site we list in SRC_URI has > permission to redistribute files? That seems like a slippery slope. We don't, and for a package that comes with a license (as the vast majority of packages does) it normally isn't necessary. The package in question doesn't come with any license though, which means that only the copyright holder has the right to distribute it. So I believe that some extra care is justified, especially when the upstream location of the distfile has changed. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/licenses/all-rights-reserved > In any case, as far as I can tell this is probably one of the > largest sites for hosting this sort of content and I can't imagine > that it would have escaped the author's notice if they didn't want > the files distributed there. We don't know this for sure unless we ask the author. So whoever is interested in keeping the package in the tree should sort these issues out. Ulrich
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