On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:15:38 -0600
Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> The GPLv2 allows you to charge for media. Strangely enough it doesn't
> talk about online bandwidth. Using physical media is out for a build-
> from-source option is out of the question. The fair thing to do is to
> host the sources and include pointers to both, the hosted sources and
> the originals (because it's good to know where those are), using the
> hosted sources by default for build-from-source.
Just curious - why do you think you'd want to use the hosted sources
"by default"? With over a decade's practical experience doing this
kind of thing, the BSD ports variants pretty much all make a first try
from, well, not the originals, but the places the authors recommend
getting things from. So building gnuccash will first try fetching
sources from the half-dozen or so sourceforge mirrors, and if all
those fail the gnucash site, and only if that fails will it start
trying the various BSD repository mirrors.
Actually, that's not quite right. The first thing they try is a local
cache of tarballs. So once you've fetched it, you won't fetch it again
unless you explicitly ask to do so.
<mike
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