> > Really? What urls should I look at? Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm? The archive on va is on /org/archive.debian.org/ftp
If the sources are not publically accessible we're not meeting the GPL requirement that we distribute them. > > Even if we restrict special source retention treatment to those packages > > with a source availability clause and even though many of our versions > > are patches, not complete archives? > > Yes. We are looking at doubling or even quadrupaling the size of the > source archive by even completing our version set, keeping them for 3 > years is insane, we can't possibly do it. > > Last I checked the GPL has such a clause which is quite the chunk of our > distribution. We can probably get by without hanging onto pre-release copies of sources. But if we can't meet the 3 year distribution requirement for all GPLed code we carry then, frankly, we should stop distributing GPLed code. [Or we should get the FSF to change the license to something we can deal with.] I hear that netbsd has put together a fairly adequate system which doesn't have any GPLed code in it. -- Raul
