On Aug 17, 2005, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eh? There is little benefit to *all* mirrors carrying the source when > very few people actually need it. Other than for compliance with the GNU GPL, you mean? How would mirrors not carrying the sources satisfy clause 3 of the GPL? They could only refrain from distributing the sources if they got a written offer, per 3b, and were able to offer such written offer for download, per 3c. IANAL, but even if a README file with links to the SRPMS in the main download site were valid as such a written offer, the main download site doesn't carry such a file for mirrors to use as the written offer, so it still wouldn't satisfy the GPL. Perhaps we could add such README files to the directories containing ISOs and SRPMS, so as to relieve mirrors from the requirement of carrying sources of GPLed packages? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
