On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Maybe find yourself a lawyer, and ask him. We're all volunteers,
I've already done the research. There is no legal requirement to contact the authors before changing the SRC_URI. > and we're no in way obligated to give legal advices to you or anyone > in particular. I'm not asking for legal advice. Somebody suggested a solution. ulm objected to that solution. I'm merely asking that those trying to stop a problem from being solved to point to a written policy, because that is how virtually every organization on the planet works. If you don't put the impetus on the person trying to block action, then nothing gets done, because posting an objection on a mailing list costs nothing. > Especially if it all started with the tone 'how dare you > remove this?!' > I certainly never objected to the removal of the package. It didn't fetch and was unmaintained. Of course it should have been treecleaned. Maybe somebody else had that tone, and if that concerns you I suggest you take it up with them. -- Rich
