[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10:24:12 am 03/10/07 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made >> available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a >> custom spin ? > [...] > > Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in BOSS > available? I thought that BOSS was derived from Debian, contains many > GPL packages, and is publicly distributed, ergo, the source code has > to be made available. I have been meaning to test this by writing to > the address on the BOSS CDs. Maybe I should do so now. >
Gora, I, for one, would welcome this move - please do go ahead and write to them asking for the sources. I can see that there is a public svn on their website - but with nothing in it. And they dont seem to make sources available to download along with the binaries either. - KB [1]: dropping CC for people known to watch the iliud list. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
