On 2015-07-06 13:16, Daniel Micay wrote: > On 05/07/15 01:39 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > > There's a PKGBUILD[1] on the AUR that downloads a binary that is illegal > > to distribute (due to licensing, it may only be distributed in source > > form). > > > > IMHO, it's a bit of a grey area if the PKGBUILD is legal or not (I > > believe it is not in some jurisdictions), but anyone running it is > > receiving illegal content, so I don't think we should keep it around. > > > > I put up a deletion request[2] for this, and the response was "The AUR > > does not distribute binaries.". > > > > While this is true, it does distribute the PKGBUILD for downloading the > > ilegal binary. This is not a case of "the package can be used to do > > something possibly illegal", this is a case of "this script was tailored > > exclusively and with the sole objective of distributing something > > illegal, and can only be used for that". > > > > [1]: https://aur4.archlinux.org/pkgbase/telegram-desktop/ > > [2]: > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2015-July/007698.html > > The AUR doesn't redistribute it. A better complaint would be that the > package should have a -bin suffix. It's open source so the unsuffixed > version should be built from the sources. >
I noticed this too, but it didn't worry me as much. > The legal issues are upstream's problem as they're the ones choosing to > keep illegally distributing it. It's not going to be much of a problem > for them because it's unlikely that any of the contributors to the GPL > code actually cares. It's a technicality, not something that's actually > causing damages or that's ethically wrong. I don't see a good reason to > remove it, either from a legal or ethical standpoint. It would only be a > problem if Arch was actually distributing it. > Arch is giving users a tool which has the sole purpose in helping distribute those binaries, and that's a really dark-grey area that might be dangerous to step into, IMHO. -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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