On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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 > [...]
Out of courtesy. Bandwidth is cheap, but not free. Also, perhaps, to avoid legal issues, though IANAL (can one argue bandwidth theft and sue?). Of course, input from legal will be needed (are there licenses which allow binary redistribution but not source redistribution? sounds weird and most unlikely). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
