Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:43 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
> No it's not a trivial amount, but it's also important that we comply
> with the licenses of the software that we distribute. I think that
> storing a gig or two extra on the mirrors (or more on the mirrors that
> archive /historical) is fairly trivial compared to violating the GPL.

I always find arguments quite funny from people that don't know the
situation, at all.  It would be well more than a couple gigabytes of
data.  In fact, it would be prohibitively more data.

Quite simply, I'm going to work with Infrastructure and see what we can
come up with.  Most likely, we're going to have to quit
shipping /releases/historical entirely, since there *will* be source
code, specifically patches made by Gentoo developers, that will be lost
in the years since things like 1.2 were released.

Now, I can easily just wrap up all of the sources on our build box after
a release.  That will pull in everything for amd64/x86, anyway.  I'd
have to get everyone else to do the same, then we could archive that
somewhere, but it would only be valid from this release forward, meaning
we would have to pull everything except the upcoming release from the
mirrors when we did it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux