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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: Should mirror restriction imply bindist restriction?
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2013-04-26 21:40:57
Message-ID: pan$e0d23$f907e666$26991b15$2b43bb85 () cox ! net
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:19:32 +0200 as
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> Ulrich Mueller schrieb:
>> Currently RESTRICT=mirror and RESTRICT=bindist are independent of each
>> other. I wonder if the former should imply the latter.
>>
>> Is there any package where the files in SRC_URI cannot be mirrored
>> (i.e., redistributed), but where the built package can be distributed?
> 
> I vaguely remember some cases of large proprietary packages which were
> legal to redistribute, but we did not want them on Gentoo mirrors. After
> all, the description according to ebuild(5) does not contain a reference
> to what you can or cannot do:
> mirror
>      files in SRC_URI will not be downloaded from the GENTOO_MIRRORS.

IIRC, one case was several gigs of data-files for some game or other.  It 
was legal to redistribute, but several gigs of files was thought too much 
for the mirrors, for a single game only a small fraction of gentoo users 
would be interested in.  Additionally, the game data wasn't likely to 
change as development had long since ceased, so it tended to be a one-
time download, meaning even users that used it would probably only do so 
once.

It's quite possible that some bit of that is incorrect, however.  Perhaps 
someone from games can confirm/correct as necessary.

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


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