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On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 22:31 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> Incidentally, the sources don't have to be on all the mirrors, |
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> assuming that's a problem at all. We could supply just one source server |
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> and rate-limit it; after all over the long term very few people will |
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> actually need to retrieve source for older releases, and when releases |
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> are new the sources are available much more easily via emerge and the |
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> mirrors. Might be worth while making that clear to people downloading |
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> the CDs. |
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The sources don't have to be on *any* mirrors. |
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We can simply burn them all to a DVD and put an offer on the CD on how |
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to get the sources, then distribute it for the cost of the DVD/shipping. |
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Another idea would be to put the CD/DVD/whatever on the store, with 0 |
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mark-up. That would mean we would be distributing it, at cost, upon |
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request. There's nothing in the GPL that says that we have to increase |
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the disk space *or* the bandwidth usage of *any* machines to comply. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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