Hi, We currently have @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group that somewhat concerns RESTRICT=bindist. I think it'd be reasonable to introduce a matching group concerning RESTRICT=mirror.
My proposition would be to add @DISTFILE-REDISTRIBUTABLE group with the following rules: - MUST permit redistribution of unmodified distfiles - MUST NOT require explicit approval (No items from @EULA) - MAY prohibit redistributing modified distfiles - MAY restrict the cost of redistribution Rationale: the main idea is to aid checking for missing RESTRICT="mirror". The rules are based on current bindist group but are more relaxed given the specific use case of our mirrors. Most notably: 1. It permits licenses that prohibit redistributing modified distfiles. In this case, due diligence is required from developers. If this is prohibited, they may only add original upstream sources to SRC_URI. 2. It permits restrictions on cost of redistribution, as some upstreams prohibit selling their products. While this renders them non-free, it shouldn't be a problem for our mirrors since we don't expect to sell stuff there ;-). Note that while technically there could be a problem with selling, say, Gentoo CDs with distfiles included, RESTRICT=mirror doesn't cover this case anyway. WDYT? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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