It wouldn't be a hard task to accomplish (to put the sources on the mirrors), since *most* of the source is already on the mirrors in some form or another. We could make an option when downloading the livecd to either download ones with the sources included, or without, and, include links to download the tarballs used in making that release. And yes, it would be very trivial compared to violating the GPL. That's just me...
~ nick On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:43 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marius Mauch wrote: > > Patrick McLean schrieb: > >> I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made > >> to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just > >> make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source > >> ISO with the binary one in /historical. > > > > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which > > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require > > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't > > exactly a trivial amount. > > > No it's not a trivial amount, but it's also important that we comply > with the licenses of the software that we distribute. I think that > storing a gig or two extra on the mirrors (or more on the mirrors that > archive /historical) is fairly trivial compared to violating the GPL. > > If we violate the GPL in this case, we really won't be able to enforce > it in the future if someone were to violate it in the case of our stuff. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEqsTnWt/XSf2CZdkRAk6FAJ9Sph9N43xafN/ihxUOREjKgJX8KACcCbTy > 52EK0y1dFpYu7PL17gu2K3U= > =NP2P > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
