On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:00:39AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On 3/25/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Mar 24, 2007, "Luis Villa" <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I believe non-commercial mirrors are not required to keep source. They > >> need only "accompany [the Program] with the information [they] > >> received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code." > >> (Sec. 3(c)). > > > >IANAL, > > I'm not either, I just go to law school, *HUGE DIFFERENCE*. To remind > everyone, you should run this by a real lawyer :) > > >but Fedora distributes code under 3(a) (sources along with > >binaries), not 3(b), so third-parties don't get to use 3(c), they must > >use either 3(a) or 3(b). > > This is why I said later that Fedora should distribute sources under > 3(b), not 3(a). (Though the two aren't mutually exclusive; it'd be > more like '3(a) plus 3(b) offer.') > > >Using 3(a) means Fedora can blow away anything it carries any time it > >wants, no further requirements. > > > >Using 3(b) would mean we'd have to keep, at least internally, the > >corresponding sources of GPLed and LGPLed code in every binary > >released package, for at least 3 years after we take it out of the > >download site, just in case someone asks us for it. AFAIK, mirrors > >who carry our binaries without sources enter precisely this kind of > >obligation. > > No, that is what 3(c) is for. Only Fedora carries the long-term > storage requirements in that case. (And as far as I can see, if you're > still distributing FC1, Fedora has no problem with nearly indefinite > storage.) That's the problem. We don't have infinite and indefinite storage, but folks have wanted to honor the GPL 3(b). If it's 3 years after the last distribution of the binaries, then we should nuke the binaries ASAP and leave the source. The SRPMS dir for FC1 is ~3GB, FC2 is ~3GB, FC3 is ~4.5GB, ... However, if mirrors keep carrying FC(early) after we've deleted it, and they're using 3(b) and passing it on to us, don't we need to carry source until the last mirror doesn't? > Luis (glad GPL v3 clears this confusion up) _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
