On 05/30/2018 02:55 PM, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: > Op di 29 mei 2018 21:18 schreef Hong Xu <hong@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On 05/29/2018 10:27 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: >>> Em maio 29, 2018 8:27 Eli Schwartz via arch-general escreveu: >>>> >>>> I'm of the opinion that there cannot be a license requirement for reuse >>>> at all, since it's not original enough, and explicitly clarify this in >>>> https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds#copyright >>>> > > > [...] > > > (IANAL) While every single PKGBUILD file may be trivial enough and thus > > does not require a license, the aggregation of them is actually >> significant. [...] > > > I >> think this can be eventually harmful for ArchLinux. For example, one can >> host an internal mirror for ArchLinux repositories without signing >> explicit agreement with the owner of the repository data. Even, as a >> user, downloading repository data is a form of reproducing. >> > > Ianal either (but also not an American), I fail to see how mirroring *free* > software can be harmful for that same free software. It's not as if "we" > are obliged (by contract or law) to ensure quality or something. With OSS > you get what you pay for; if your kitten gets eaten in the process, too > bad... > > Now, if we were talking about commercial software, that might be something > else. But AFAIK that has no real place in our repos. > > The harmful part is not about mirroring the software themselves, but the metadata created by package maintainers. Hong
