Douglas McClendon writes: > Then the final question of course would be, since derivative > distros of this nature are using binaries actually built by fedora, > will fedora be willing to go the extra mile and offer written > assurance to keep the source rpms available for 3 years, or > whatever the whole fallout from the gpl-derivative-distro thread of > recent history was. > > I mean, it seems plain silly to force derivative distros, that are > using binaries compiled and provided by fedora, to maintain a > mirror of the source rpms. Especially if as above, the yum configs > in the derivative distros are pointing at fedora servers anyway. Tough. It's what the GPL says. If you supply someone with a binary, you have to supply the source. You can't point someone somewhere else and say "the source is over there, get it yourself". Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
