On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:41:19PM -0300, Christian Reis wrote: > Honestly, I don't think offering public read-only CVS is any more a > patent liability than distributing source code in tarballs.
It's about where the server is located. Finnish law does not recognise software patents, yet, so it should be quite safe to distribute software here. But in September there should be a vote in EU parliament/council/ whatever that most likely will set into motion changes to the worse although it would still take time for the directive to become a law. After that, Finland is no safer than the US where most of the services are located. > Why not offer an rsync:// plug to your local repository and have > `somebody' mirror that elsewhere, if you are unable to offer a > cvspserver? I'm Big Brother-firewalled. (It should be possible to get some ports, though, but I still don't like runing extra servers on the computer -- or the firewall.) I think there was some time ago on slashdot a mention of an ssh-based remote file system... maybe some kludge based on such would work. -- Tuomo
