Summary: | >=sys-firmware/ivtv-firmware-20080701 should probably not be mirror-restricted | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Maxim Kammerer <mk> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | mythtv+disabled |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
See Also: | http://bugs.debian.org/411617 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Maxim Kammerer
2012-12-09 18:53:28 UTC
Some potential sticky points: "If you are not the final manufacturer or vendor of a computer system or firmware program incorporating the Firmware" - are we? And if so, does that mean there is no license? The wording isn't really clear - the previous paragraph just grants a license "subject to the terms of this Agreement" without that qualification, but then the next paragraph adds it. "recipient for use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, provided such recipient agrees to be fully bound by the terms hereof." I don't believe we document that those we distribute files to agree to be fully bound by the terms of this agreement. The mirrors are publicly accessible websites - anybody can just download files off of them. "Your rights to redistribute the Firmware shall be contingent upon your installation of this Agreement in its entirety in the same directory as the Firmware." The text of this agreement is not installed in the same directory as the Firmware, either on the mirrors, or on the final end-user system. If somebody can point to discussion on debian-legal/etc that touches on these points, I'd be interested. This is the only discussion I have found: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411617 Seem that they didn't analyze the redistribution issue in depth. It's no longer restricted in tree: 11 Feb 2013; Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> ivtv-firmware-20080701.ebuild: Remove RESTRICT=mirror, upstream is no longer around. 11 Feb 2013; Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> ivtv-firmware-20080701.ebuild: Switch to Gentoo mirrors for SRC_URI since upstream's site is gone |