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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:53:42 +0000 (UTC) |
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"Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> posted |
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> > a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable |
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> > source code, which must be distributed under the terms of |
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> > Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software |
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> > interchange; or, |
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> This is what most distributions do (including Gentoo AFAIK). This is |
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> fine because as long as the binaries are provided, so are the |
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> sources. |
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This is not true for Gentoo LiveCDs, stage tarballs etc. It may be |
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true at the moment they are first uploaded, in that everything should |
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be available on the mirrors, but as time goes on and we continue to |
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distribute them it becomes false. Just try to retrieve the source for |
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the historical distributions. |
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For example, if we hand out CDs at conventions etc, we would have to |
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also hand out source CDs. |
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For comparison, RedHat et. al. distribute binary & source CDs together, |
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both on-line and in their retail packs. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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