Hi Andy, On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:05:54AM +0100, Andy wrote: > On 04/06/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Licensing - would it be 100% legal to redistribute the entire (main, > > restricted, multiverse, universe) repository? > > Not sure about "restricted" and "mutliverse", but "main" and > "universe" should be safe. > And some of the stuff in multiverse is probably safe, some of it's > only in there due to some stupid countries that have software patents >
Would this mean a list of "safe to send to" countries would need to be compiled? > > 2) Cost - it would need to be less than the cost of capped broadband - > > although for those people with no opportunity to get broadband this might > > not be a problem :) > > How much do the disks weigh? > 200 odd grammes, plus the packaging and usb cable. > > 4) Trust: Would a customer trust that the disk really does contain the repo > > and not some nasty spyware etc. > > If it's an apt repo isn't the integrity of the package verified by > digital signature? They are if you get them from a "deb http" source, but I am not sure it would if you (the user) uses "deb file" to load directly from the USB disk. Of course they could put the USB disk on their intranet - then apt would moan about the site because it's not where the files came from iirc. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
