[aur-general] AUR & Copyright

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Tue Feb 8 02:36:03 EST 2011


On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 13:47 -0600, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 09:29, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> See my gcc-svn PKGBUILD:
> >>
> >>    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24849
> >>
> >> Nobody likes it anyway, so who cares! :-)
> >>
> >
> > Dude please don't try to make any policy decisions on your own. We still
> > haven't decided what the policy will be regarding PKGBUILD licenses uploaded
> > to the AUR. --Kaiting.
> 
> I made that decision nearly 2 years ago, long before any of you even
> thought of starting this discussion.
> 
> Besides, I was merely providing a counterexample to Ray Rashif's
> statement: 'First of all, we've never
> had people claiming "rights" to PKGBUILDs.'
> 

I'm going to jump in and say that you may consider any of my PKGBUILDs
to be under the WTFPL (google it, text may not be worksafe if they
object to Anglo-Saxon epithets.  I'm sure you get the idea).

Gordon MM0YEQ



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