On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Wulf C. Krueger
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> On 16.07.2014 18:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >> IANAL, but there is no such concept as "abandonware" in copyright
> >> law.
> [...]
> > This is legally a very risky thing to do. If you're
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On 16/07/14 03:54 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Denis Dupeyron
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>> Let me try and be clearer. The packages I'm concerned with have
>> had their distfiles backed up. We're not yet in that situation
>> but the
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
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> Let me try and be clearer. The packages I'm concerned with have had
> their distfiles backed up. We're not yet in that situation but the day
> the publisher stops distributing these distfiles, I'll be ready to
> send the right email to the
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> So, RESTRICT="mirror" would turn into
> RESTRICT="officially-dont-mirror-but-actually-do-just-in-case-distfiles-are-dropped-upstream-but-after-we-still-cant-officially-mirror-them-due-to-license-and-copyright-infringement-anyway"
> ?
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>
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On 16/07/14 03:19 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Berntsen
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>> Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e.
>> the copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not
>> have
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On 16/07/14 21:19, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice of word
> from my part and not what I wanted to say. I didn't mean we should
> distribute distfiles without consent, but back them up to a hidden
>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Berntsen
wrote:
> Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the
> copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have
> anything to do with this.
I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice of word from
my p
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Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the
copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have
anything to do with this.
- --
Alexander
berna...@gentoo.org
https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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On 16.07.2014 18:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> IANAL, but there is no such concept as "abandonware" in copyright
>> law.
[...]
> This is legally a very risky thing to do. If you're going to do
> it you want to take advantage of countries with friendly la
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> IANAL, but there is no such concept as "abandonware" in copyright law.
> Copyright can expire, at which point the work enters into the public
> domain. However, the time for that is generally too long to play any
> practical role for softwa
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial
> package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was that
> if upstream disappears there's a good chance, depending on why that
> happens, we can qualify the software a
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