Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:15 -0600, Nick Devito wrote:
> It wouldn't be a hard task to accomplish (to put the sources on the
> mirrors), since *most* of the source is already on the mirrors in some
> form or another. We could make an option when downloading the livecd to
> either download ones with the sources included, or without, and, include
> links to download the tarballs used in making that release. And yes, it
> would be very trivial compared to violating the GPL. That's just me...

*sigh*

Making a CD with all the sources on the same CD as the binaries would be
prohibitively restrictive.  We're not going to do it.  We're not even
going to try it.

I have this hair-brained idea.  How about instead of postulating, you
try speaking with the teams actually involved and see what they think?
I'm sure Release Engineering and Infrastructure know just a little bit
about the releases and our mirrors.  ;]

Anyway...

I'm now going to be working with our Infrastructure team to come up with
a solution.  Continued "discussion" on this issue without knowing any of
the actual back-end information is pretty pointless.  I'm going to be
working on a solution, so I am not going to bother reading any more of
this thread, nor responding to it.  There's simply no point in
discussing something where one has none of the important information and
yet still tries to make a decision.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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