On 25 October 2014 at 19:19, W. Trevor King wrote: | * How legal is it to publish/distribute a Docker image containing | compiled versions of copyleft software without also mirroring the | associated source code?
Well, speaking for Rocker, we build using Docker's builder service against sources of Dockerfiles which are themselves on GitHub, and it so happens that essentially everything we include is either also hosted on GitHub in source form, or by now mirrored on GitHub. So someone trying to bring a claim or suit may have a bit of hard time. As you noted nobody brought one yet. | * Can students who sometimes struggle with installing Git successfully | install Docker? I could take that criticism more seriously if the current situation was either easy, or generally mastered by the students. Sadly for most users coming in with Windows, it is neither. For our upcoming seminar we ask them to install gitbash, an editor (via SWC installers or another), R, RStudio plus possibly more packages on Windows. I don't think that is easy. It is quite straightforward to install boot2docker via its oneshot install. I did that once at work on Windows and found it easy. That said, the real criticism is that we want to teach them in the environment they may be using day-to-day. That clearly is not Docker, and we have a catch-22. Anyway, let us all do some work and see where this leads. We already have easy and failsafe ways to install RStudio Server or iPython networks in what we have now. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
