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?
It does matter because Gentoo is a foundation which need to respect that
"absurdity" of licenses and copyright thing.
And i think that you, as a user, need to agree with that policy
(and common sense actually) while using Gentoo.
This is a "free software" community , not a "fuck the law" community.
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