On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:17:01PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Indeed, almost all the containers, app bundles etc. out there are
> outright illegal, because they just repackage a random distro's
> packages without including the corresponding SRPMs or equivalent. The
> full corresponding sources would usually be many times larger than
> the container, because a lot of libraries from different source
> packages are bundled.

Note that a significant feature of the Layered Image Build Service we
just deployed in Fedora (which creates Docker-style OCI bundles) is the
ability to trace back from binary to source we provide.

We'll do something similar when building Flatpaks.


-- 
Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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