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

[Francesco Riosa <vivo@gentoo.org>]

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...

Why should we put the sources on every mirrors at all?

Those sources packages will be much less downloaded, 4 sure put them
only in _one_ place over the internet will suffice.

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>>>> Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which
>>>> for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require
>>>> another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't
>>>> exactly a trivial amount.

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