[aur-general] PKGBUILD that downloads ilegal content

Johannes Löthberg johannes at kyriasis.com
Sun Jul 5 19:15:47 UTC 2015


On 05/07, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
>While this is true, it does distribute the PKGBUILD for downloading the
>ilegal binary. This is not a case of "the package can be used to do
>something possibly illegal", this is a case of "this script was tailored
>exclusively and with the sole objective of distributing something
>illegal, and can only be used for that".
>

There is one big flaw with your argumentation: Downloading a binary is 
not the same as distributing it.

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Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
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