| 1 |
It wouldn't be a hard task to accomplish (to put the sources on the |
| 2 |
mirrors), since *most* of the source is already on the mirrors in some |
| 3 |
form or another. We could make an option when downloading the livecd to |
| 4 |
either download ones with the sources included, or without, and, include |
| 5 |
links to download the tarballs used in making that release. And yes, it |
| 6 |
would be very trivial compared to violating the GPL. That's just me... |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
~ nick |
| 9 |
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:43 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: |
| 10 |
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
| 11 |
> Hash: SHA1 |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> Marius Mauch wrote: |
| 14 |
> > Patrick McLean schrieb: |
| 15 |
> >> I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made |
| 16 |
> >> to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just |
| 17 |
> >> make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source |
| 18 |
> >> ISO with the binary one in /historical. |
| 19 |
> > |
| 20 |
> > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which |
| 21 |
> > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require |
| 22 |
> > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't |
| 23 |
> > exactly a trivial amount. |
| 24 |
> > |
| 25 |
> No it's not a trivial amount, but it's also important that we comply |
| 26 |
> with the licenses of the software that we distribute. I think that |
| 27 |
> storing a gig or two extra on the mirrors (or more on the mirrors that |
| 28 |
> archive /historical) is fairly trivial compared to violating the GPL. |
| 29 |
> |
| 30 |
> If we violate the GPL in this case, we really won't be able to enforce |
| 31 |
> it in the future if someone were to violate it in the case of our stuff. |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 34 |
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) |
| 35 |
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org |
| 36 |
> |
| 37 |
> iD8DBQFEqsTnWt/XSf2CZdkRAk6FAJ9Sph9N43xafN/ihxUOREjKgJX8KACcCbTy |
| 38 |
> 52EK0y1dFpYu7PL17gu2K3U= |
| 39 |
> =NP2P |
| 40 |
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 41 |
-- |
| 42 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives