The highly controversial IDEA-extension. * DUE TO PATENT CLAIMS THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE IS NOT ALLOWED IN * THESE COUNTRIES: * AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, * SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, THE UK AND THE US. It is _YOUR_ responsibility to check that you do not violate any patent restrictions. Neither the author of the port nor any member of the Gentoo-team may be held responsible for any patent violation comitted. Gee, one cannot stress this point enough ...
Created attachment 7640 [details] Ebuild * *************************************************************************** * * DUE TO PATENT CLAIMS THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE IS NOT ALLOWED IN * * * THESE COUNTRIES: * * * AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, * * * SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, THE UK AND THE US. * * ***************************************************************************
Oh yeah, I put "idea" as licence-type, which obviously doesn't really exist. That must be fixed, probably by creating an appropriate licence type. Or is there a generice type "patent pending"?
i'm dutch im not allowed to touch it ;) nah, this is no gnome package anyway, should such a restrictive package be added to the tree ?
Let's play hot potato. I'm in the US and there's some really scary stuff going on here, so I'm walking away from this one.
due to the restrictive nature of this, it's probably better not to add this to the tree.
I agree with all you guys. I suppose that, if it stays in bugzilla, everybody who wants to burn his fingers can get it, and nobody else get hurts. Anyways, FeeBSD has a config-option "US_RESIDENT". One might consider adding such a RESIDENT parameter to the make.conf file. Then, whenever there is such a strange restriction, one could add NOT_FOR_USE_IN="DE,UK,US,...". The ebuild can then be compiled if and only if the RESIDENT parameter is set and is set to a value different from those NOT_FOR_USE_IN values. This way, it is the users responsibility only. Well, just a spontaneuos thought ... I don't care that much about the idea-plugin, I just found the kuvert application kinda cute. However, I have the feeling that this problem will occur more offen in the future. So all I'm saying is that a standard procedure might be useful for such packages.
