Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

2012-06-12 Thread Yasha Karant
On 06/11/2012 07:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: [snip] If I am missing something, is there a discussion link (URL) of the issues, preferably not in legalese? There are dozens of threads, and there's the acutal licensing in the RPM's and SRPM's. Take a good look in

Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

2012-06-12 Thread zxq9
On 06/13/2012 01:31 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 06/11/2012 07:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: [snip] If I am missing something, is there a discussion link (URL) of the issues, preferably not in legalese? There are dozens of threads, and there's the acutal licensing in the RPM's and SRPM's. Take

Official archive date for Scientific Linux 4 - June 12 2012 (complete)

2012-06-12 Thread Pat Riehecky
The move to /linux/scientific/obsolete/version name for Scientific Linux 4 is now complete. On 06/11/2012 10:01 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: Reminder: As of February 2012 Scientific Linux 4 has been receiving no updates of any type since it has been designated End of Life. The extra length of

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Download servers ftp[x].scientificlinux.org unreachable

2012-06-12 Thread Pat Riehecky
Knew I forgot something: And thanks for the report! On 06/12/2012 02:55 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: This should be fixed now, please let us know if this is not accurate. Pat On 06/10/2012 08:54 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk! On 2012.06.07 at 18:01:30 +,

Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

2012-06-12 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:11:23AM +0900, zxq9 wrote: On 06/12/2012 03:49 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: Am I missing something here? I thought under the GPL as well as various other open source licenses, TUV was required to make available the full source from which the full non-encumbered distro

Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

2012-06-12 Thread zxq9
On 06/13/2012 06:44 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: (On this list, are we really required to say TUV instead of ***censored***, as if we were playing a 1984 double-speak live action game?) Yes, because lawyers have made even casual conversation a legal minefield for reasons other than