On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:10:54 -0500 Gordon Pettey <petteyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > And this is all irrelevant since the copyright applies to the > software, not the location you obtain it from. Nobody commits > copyright infringement by buying a used book from their neighbour > instead of buying it at Half Price Books. > Distribution licenses are another thing, but if the original SRC_URI > from the ebuild wasn't RESTICT="fetch", what makes anybody think that > would suddenly change with a new SRC_URI?
Are you a lawyer, and does this constitute legal advice? I ask, because the lawyers I've spoken to about a similar issue seemed to think it wasn't that simple. -- Ciaran McCreesh